Podcast: Presidential primary post-mortem

Much of the anticipation for Tuesday’s primary election centered around the significance of New York having a meaningful primary race this late in the election season, rather than the state being a particularly competitive race for the respective Democratic and Republican presidential frontrunners.

Sure enough, when the dust settled on Tuesday night, the excitement in New York was relegated to supporters of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, while Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz and John Kasich may have been dealt a final blow in their longshot campaigns for the White House.

New York state Democratic Party executive director Basil Smikle and Iona College political scientist Jeanne Zaino joined Gerson Borrero and me on a special episode of the Slant Podcast for a post-mortem of the New York primary results. We discuss the upstate-downstate divide of Clinton’s victory, whether Sanders’ campaign misjudged the gains he could make in New York City and whether the Clinton victory correlated to the special election state Senate race in Nassau County.

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