NY is a closed Primary but open General Election. Democrats and Independents were not ALLOWED to vote for Trump last night, but they will be allowed in November.
Reagan won NY with cross over votes and it wasn’t even his home state.
There are just not enough crossovers.
Primary voters are much more motivated to vote for their particular candidate. I cannot logically believe that somebody that voted for Clinton or even Clinton 2:1 in a primary is suddenly going to vote for Trump. IMHO its not going to happen.
I remember the Reagan race in 1980. The major criticism of Reagan was that he was was a light weight actor from California even though he’d been governor of California for 8 years and he was to old and wasn’t presidential. It was the debates when he won telling Carter he would not take advantage of his youth and inexperience.
There is no comparison between 1980 and 2016. Trump is not facing a sitting president, and even if he was there is no way he can match the presidential demeanor of candidate Reagan.
Reagan got respect because it was easy see he was a true gentleman and Patriot. Trump on the other hand claims to be a patriot and if you don’t believe him he is gonna sue your ass...
Trump will get stomped in NY in November.