Clinton, Trump expected to roll on

Democrats and Republicans vote in presidential primaries in five states Tuesday — Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island — with frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump favored to win in each state, adding to their delegate leads.

Former Secretary of State Clinton is getting close to clinching the Democratic nomination. Meanwhile, billionaire businessman Trump is looking more and more inevitable as the GOP nominee.

But Democrat Bernie Sanders, and Republicans Ted Cruz and John Kasich will soldier on, insisting — math aside — they still have a chance at derailing the frontrunners.

Trump has the easier path Tuesday.

He has a double-digit lead in all five states, ranging from 14 percentage points in Maryland to a monstrous 37-point lead in Delaware, according to Real Clear Politics.

Only in Pennsylvania is Cruz in second place, according to those polls. Kasich is in second in the other four states.

Clinton has double-digit leads in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

But Sanders could eke out a win in one or more of the other states, where Clinton’s leads range from 2.5 percentage points, in Rhode Island, to 7 points, in Delaware.

Up next? Indiana’s primaries on May 3, featuring a make-or-break moment for Cruz and the Stop Trump movement.

This story was originally published April 26, 2016 at 7:49 AM with the headline "Clinton, Trump expected to roll on."