Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE added to her already significant lead in delegates over Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE on Tuesday following a resounding victory in her home state of New York.





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According to The Associated Press count, the Democratic presidential front-runner entered the night with a lead of about 244 unpledged delegates over rival Sanders.As of Wednesday morning, Clinton expanded her lead to 277, picking up another 33 delegates. There were 247 delegates up for grabs in New York.Clinton finishes the primary with 1,428 pledged delegates, compared to 1,151 for Sanders.With the addition of superdelegates — party leaders who can support any candidate — Clinton’s total grows to 1,897 and Sanders's to 1,182, according to the AP.A candidate needs 2,383 to secure the Democratic nomination, putting Clinton about 80 percent of the way there. Sanders is only halfway there, with about 56 percent of unpledged delegates having already been awarded.With about 1,400 pledged delegates still up for grabs, Clinton would only need to win 35 percent of them to secure the nomination, even if she didn't gain another superdelegate.“The race for the Democratic nomination is in the homestretch, and victory is in sight,” Clinton said in New York City on Tuesday night.Sanders, meanwhile, has a near impossible path to 2,383.He would need to win about 1,200 of the remaining pledged delegates if he didn't gain another superdelegate, or more than 85 percent, to secure the nomination before the Democratic National Convention in July.There are about 200 superdelegates still up for grabs, according to several estimates, so getting them on board will be paramount for Sanders."I'm not saying this is impossible for Bernie Sanders, but when you are more than 200 pledged delegates behind at this point in the campaign, you have zero margin for error,” said MSNBC political anchor Steve Kornacki.

--Jesse Byrnes contributed to this report, which was updated on April 20 at 7:33 a.m.