Donald Trump finished first in the First State on Tuesday, carrying 61 percent of the vote and picking up all 16 delegates in Delaware’s Republican primary.
The billionaire’s victory in the second smallest state in the U.S. put him that much closer to the GOP nomination, as he carried four other states to victory on Tuesday.
In the one survey of Delaware Republicans taken before the state’s primary, Trump led both of his rivals — Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — by almost 40 percentage points.
Delaware’s winner-take-all delegate allocation could help put Trump over 900 delegates if he sweeps his opponents in the four other states — Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maryland — that voted on Tuesday.
