New York exceptionalism and Donald Trump

Published April 17, 2016 12:00pm ET



New York, once the nation’s dominant political state, holds its presidential primary on Tuesday. Three candidates can claim home state status. But Bernie Sanders, who grew up there, left for Vermont 48 years ago, and Hillary Clinton, who moved in to run for the Senate, has spent most of her life elsewhere. Only Donald Trump, who grew up in Jamaica Estates in Queens and lives in an eponymous Manhattan skyscraper, is an unambiguous hometowner.

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