By Britt Nelson

Homeboy billionaire Donald Trump and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won the New York Primary on Tuesday night, further advancing a future face-off between the two for the upcoming national Presidential election in November.

Republican Trump scored higher than expected with a whopping 60.5 percent of the vote and winning at least 89 of New York’s 95 GOP delegates, according to Real Clear Politics. Ohio Gov. John Kasich came in with 25 percent of the vote to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s 14.5 percent.

Out of the 1,237 Republican delegates needed to win the GOP nomination for president, Trump now has 845 delegates, to Cruz’s 559 while Kasich has 147 delegates.

On the other side of the railroad tracks, the Democrats gave Clinton 58 percent of her home state vote to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 42 percent.

Clinton now has, not counting super delegates — 1,428 delegates to Sanders’ 1151. Some 2,383 delegates are needed to win the Democratic nomination for President, according to Real Clear Politics.

Coming up next Tuesday, April 26, are five Republican and Democratic primary elections in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware. For Republicans 172 delegates are at stake while Democrats will assign 364 delegates. Looking at poll figures, Trump appears headed for more 5 wins, and so is Clinton.

Delegates are, simply put, representatives from each state that are sent to either the Republican or Democratic National Conventions. They are assigned to vote for a particular candidate on the first roll-call vote of the delegates. If no candidate reaches the pre-set threshold for each party, then the delegates are free to vote for another candidate during the second roll-call vote which is called a ‘contested’ convention.

Sometimes it is hard to understand the math game involved with presidential campaigns mixed with the complexities of each state’s voting process and different rules for Republicans and Democrats in each state.

Both anti-establishment candidates Trump and Sanders are screaming for extensive national campaign reforms. Both campaigns are using words such as — “Rigged,” “Collusion,” “Fixed,” “Crooked,” and “Phony Deal,” to describe their experiences with running for the USA’s highest elected office.

These words pretty much sum up the current race for president of the United States on both sides of the political aisle and for seats in the U.S. Congress. The more you watch political news on American TV and on social media, the more you just shake your head in disbelief.

Every dirty trick in the book is being played against Trump and Sanders by establishment Republicans and Democrats.

Sanders says he is staying the race even through his fellow Democrats are urging him to withdraw now to unify the Democratic Party.

Cruz and Kasich are also being pressured to drop out of the race, but they are being courted and financed by establishment Republicans in order to keep Trump from winning the delegates necessary to secure the nomination on the first roll-call vote at the GOP convention.

What is so obvious is the need for far-reaching-all-50-states campaign reforms. There is not much right about the way registered-citizen voters in America elect their leaders for president, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives along with state and local offices as well.

The current election process lasts too long and it has evolved to protect the established, two-party system of Democrats and Republicans that has no room for candidates like Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders or real estate king Donald Trump, not to mention the creation of a third political party – The Independent Party.

If a candidate, like Trump, comes to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in July, short of the 1,237 needed numbers of delegates he can be denied the nomination even though he had the most votes from the primaries and caucuses across the country, and the highest number of delegates coming into the convention.

According to current GOP nominating rules, the voting public can be ignored and this is simply wrong.