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Meanwhile, a few miles uptown, the Guardian’s Megan Carpentier reports on a Hillary Clinton rally:

Megan Carpentier (@megancarpentier) Hillary Clinton at a packed house in the Bronx. pic.twitter.com/69b7fwy6ER

Hillary Clinton took the stage in the Bronx with borough president Ruben Diaz, Jr., more than an hour behind schedule, as the last people of a capacity crowd pushed into the room and raised their cell phones high to capture the moment. And while the crowds 18 miles [29km] south in Manhattan might have been larger (and reportedly filled with contented marijuana smokers), the predominately African-American and Latino crowd extended to Clinton a very warm welcome after some had to wait in line for an hour or more as temperatures dropped outside.

“I’ve been here before, my husband’s been here before, and we’ll keep the Bronx in our hearts and in our minds,” she said to cheers and applause, in what might have been a dig at her Democratic rival, whose popular Bronx rally less than two weeks ago didn’t quite make it all the way north to Coop City.

The reserved some of their loudest cheers, though, for Clinton’s promise that they’ll see her “taking on the gun lobby” and protecting women’s access to reproductive health services - moreso than for affordable housing, better transportation to get to work and “clean and renewable energy”.

But the crowd went wild with applause, cutting her off, when she repeated her oft-used stump speech line “I don’t think that President Obama gets the credit he deserves” for his efforts on the economy.

“I’ve learned a lot, hanging out with the presidents I know,” she followed up to some knowing laughs from the crowd.

And then, after a few digs at Trump’s anti-immigrant sentiments (followed by the more positive “This is a borough of immigrants, in a city of immigrants, in a state of immigrants, in a country of immigrants”, which earned plenty of cheers), a reference to giving Puerto Rico the tools it needs to deal with the ongoing financial crisis (many Puerto Ricans have settled in the Bronx, especially of late) and an applause-inspiring references to her recently becoming a grandmother, Clinton encouraged the crowd to vote, but not necessarily just for her: “Vote for yourselves, vote for your families, vote for your children, your grandchildren, vote for the future, not the past”.

And then, hardly 20 minutes after she arrived, she left. (And, as she did so, all those miles south, Bernie Sanders prepared to take his own stage.)

Outside the rally, a group of women passed a friend waiting at the bus stop. “It was so worth it, waiting in that line!” said one of the group of women to the one at the bus stop.

“Definitely,” she said.