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US presidential candidates are on their final day of campaigning in New York, ahead of the state's crucial primary vote on Tuesday. Thousands of New Yorkers have now heard pitches from all the major candidates - and as our New York correspondent Lorna Shaddick reports, there's a clear leader on the Republican side.

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The king of the Empire State… After a tough few weeks for his campaign and a loss in Wisconsin, Donald Trump's well ahead in the polls in New York - he says he's got a hometown advantage.

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Remember New York values? // We have the greatest values, nobody has values like us.

It was those so-called 'New York values' that Mr. Trump's opponent Ted Cruz disparaged in a debate at the start of the year - perfect ammunition, months later, for the homegrown New York businessman to fling at the constitutional conservative Senator.

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Do you remember during the debate when he started lecturing me on 'New York values', like we're no good. Like we're no good. And I started talking to him about the World Trade Center, the bravery, the incredible bravery of everybody.

Standup at protest - Super: Lorna Shaddick, New York

Donald Trump likes to talk about how he was born and brought up in the heart of New York City - but just before he makes an appearance at the midtown Manhattan hotel behind me, he's attracted hundreds of protestors, and the people who've turned out here say that he doesn't espouse their New York values.

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What Donald Trump stands for is not something that New York or even someone who's a human being should be for.

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His whole campaign is about hate. It's about hating Muslims. This is a society, especially New York, we're a multicultural society. You walk to Queens, you walk to the Bronx - we all love each other. So we want to show the world we're not about that - and he's not going to win here.

That's a sentiment his two opponents would like to get behind - even though they know they've got a tough fight on their hands, especially in former manufacturing areas upstate, where Donald Trump's message on trade and jobs has resonated. Here's Ted Cruz:

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You know, it's easy to talk about making America great again. You could even print that on a baseball cap. But the real question is - do you understand the principles and values that made America great in the first place?

But experts say although Mr. Trump has got a groundswell of popular support, and could take all 95 of New York's delegates, he hasn't been playing the long game. Peter Emerson's been involved i every presidential campaign since 1972 and was a senior official in the Carter White House:

SOT - Super: Peter Emerson, Senior Inflation Advisor, Carter administration

Trump has the possibility of pulling off a very significant victory in New York. // I have never, in 40 years of political experience in this country, seen such fear and anger, oftentimes rage and terror , sweeping the country. // Trump has a sensitivity or antenna that have picked up on this from the very beginning. // But - the big but is that while Donald Trump was speaking constantly and tweeting constantly, Ted Cruz and his team were playing the back room game, the second ballot game. That is to say that if Trump falls short, Cruz is hoping the convention will allow it to go to a second ballot and then he'll win it.

As the song goes, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere - and if all goes to plan, Donald Trump will be hoping momentum from a win in the Big Apple can help him along to victory elsewhere too. Lorna Shaddick, New York.

Monday, April 18, 2016

Trump Aims To Storm To Victory in NY Primary