Hillary Clinton boasts a double-digit lead over Bernie Sanders in New York. | Getty Trump, Clinton dominate New York primaries in new poll The home-state candidates are each projected to notch double digit wins, while things look bleak for Cruz and Kasich.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are leading their respective fields in New York’s presidential primaries, according to a new poll out Thursday.

The Quinnipiac University poll shows Clinton with a 12-point lead over Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn-born Vermont senator, 54 percent to 42 percent.


In the Republican race, Trump is way ahead, with 56 percent of the vote, to just 20 percent for Ted Cruz and 19 percent for John Kasich. A victory on April 19 by a margin resembling that of the new survey – particularly if Trump wins a majority of the vote overall and in many of the state’s 27 congressional districts – would lead to a massive delegate haul for the GOP front-runner.

If the polls are correct and both home-state candidates notch wins, it could help them regain their footing later in April — even if they lose Tuesday in Wisconsin.

Trump is the most popular of the three GOP candidates among Republican voters: 68 percent view him favorably, while 27 percent have an unfavorable opinion. (Among all New York voters, Trump is deeply unpopular: 30 percent favorable, 65 percent unfavorable.)

But Trump’s standing among Republicans is better than Cruz’s: Only 49 percent have a favorable opinion of Cruz, compared to 40 percent who view him favorably.

New York GOP voters know less about Kasich, who spent much of Wednesday in the borough of Queens: 43 percent have a favorable opinion of Kasich, 18 percent view him unfavorably, and 38 percent say they haven’t heard enough to form an opinion.

In the Democratic primary, the poll echoes cleavages in the race that have been present in other states. Sanders beats Clinton handily among younger Democratic voters: He leads her by 27 points among voters under age 45, 63 percent to 36 percent. But Clinton wins easily among voters 45-64 (60 percent to 35 percent) and voters 65 and older (73 percent to 22 percent).

Though Sanders holds a slight lead among male primary voters, 49 percent to 46 percent – Clinton is up big among women, 59 percent to 37 percent.

Both candidates are popular among Democrats: Clinton’s favorability rating is 78 percent favorable/18 percent unfavorable, compared to Sanders’ 74 percent favorable/9 percent unfavorable.

But Clinton’s overall favorable rating among all New York voters is upside-down: 45 percent favorable/49 percent unfavorable. That’s because large majorities of Republicans and independents – who are ineligible to vote in New York’s closed primary – view Clinton unfavorably.

Sanders’ overall image rating is stronger: 54 percent favorable/30 percent unfavorable.

The poll was conducted March 22-29, surveying 1,667 registered voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points. For the subsample of 693 likely Democratic primary voters, the margin of error is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. For the subsample of 457 likely Republican primary voters, the margin of error is plus or minus 4.6 points.