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Supporters of Hillary Clinton at a primary night event in Philadelphia.

Eric Thayer for The New York Times

Big Wins Send Trump and Clinton Barreling Toward Each Other

By PATRICK HEALY AND JONATHAN MARTIN

Good Wednesday morning. The election results of the five states voting on Tuesday, for which The Times provided live analysis, increased the chances that Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton would be their parties’ nominees.

Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton barreled toward a general election showdown on Tuesday night as they dominated primaries in Maryland, Pennsylvania and others across the Northeast, piling up enough delegates to close in on their parties’ nominations.

Looking past their fading rivals, the two even taunted each other in dueling election-night events. Mrs. Clinton chided the Republican’s penchant for harsh language by saying that “love trumps hate.” Mr. Trump, who has sporadically adopted a more civil tone, all but proved her point when he argued that Mrs. Clinton’s entire appeal boiled down to her gender.

“Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she would get 5 percent of the vote,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Trump had the more convincing performance on Tuesday: He swept all five primaries, winning landslides of more than 30 percentage points over his rivals, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio. His routs represented a breakthrough: He received more than half the vote in every state, after months of winning primaries by only pluralities.

The big night for Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton intensified the aura of inevitability around their nomination bids and created urgent new challenges for their rivals. More significant, it increased Mr. Trump’s chances of avoiding a fight on the floor of the Republican convention in July and of claiming the nomination on the delegates’ first ballot.

On the Democratic side, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont won only the primary in Rhode Island and fell further behind Mrs. Clinton in their race to amass 2,383 Democratic delegates to clinch the party’s nomination.

Mrs. Clinton, who took the stage at an election night rally in Philadelphia to “Eye of the Tiger” from the “Rocky” movies, predicted that she would return to the city this summer for the Democratic convention “with the most votes and the most pledged delegates.”

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What We’re Watching Today

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Mr. Trump will hold an evening rally in Indiana with Bob Knight, the former coach of the University of Indiana basketball team.

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Mr. Sanders will also be in Indiana, which votes on Tuesday.

Eric Thayer for The New York Times

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Mark Makela for The New York Times

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Damon Winter/The New York Times

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Why Donald Trump Is Probably Two States From Victory

By NATE COHN

After a big night, and given his polling leads in other states, he may need victories only in Indiana and California to avoid a contested convention.

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By MICHAEL BARBARO

The two were looking for a convincing five-state romp in the East that would quiet skeptics and marginalize rivals. He pulled it off. She fell slightly short.

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Mr. Trump, his campaign said, plans to touch on global trade, and economic and national security policies in a speech that comes as he tries to transition into general election mode.

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What We’re Reading Elsewhere

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Variety writes that “never has politics been so blended with entertainment” as it has in the 2016 race, and argues that, in both parties, “celebrity status seems to translate into political clout,” and that the “level of exposure is scrutinized as much as polling numbers.”

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Vox takes a look at “why next year is going to be a disaster for Paul Ryan’s presidential dreams.”

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And The New Yorker says that Mr. Trump’s recent success caused his rivals, and the Republican party itself, to “give up on the Northeast.”

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