US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton added to her commanding lead in delegates over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders with her victory in New York state primary.

The former New York senator got a lead of about 244 delegates over rival Sanders Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press count.

There were 247 delegates up for grabs in the Democratic primary in New York, the second biggest prize on the map nationwide.

Clinton was projected to come out of the primary with a total of about 1,425 pledged delegates, ahead of Sanders with 1,150.

With the addition of the so-called superdelegates — party leaders who can support any candidate — Clinton’s delegate count grows to 1,893 and Sanders’s to 1,180.

“The race for the Democratic nomination is in the homestretch, and victory is in sight,” Clinton said in a victory speech in New York City on Tuesday night.

Sanders now would need to win about 85 percent of the remaining pledged delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination before the convention in July – a path some analysts now see as impossible.

On the Republican side, frontrunner Donald Trump, who has recently reshuffled his campaign team, cruised to a resounding victory in his home state, trouncing his two rivals in Tuesday’s primary.

Trump’s haul of most of New York’s 95 delegates pushed him closer to the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the GOP nomination before the Republican National Convention.

“We're going to end at a very high level and get a lot more delegates than anybody projected even in their wildest imaginations,” the celebrity businessman said from Trump Tower.

The eventual winners of the Democratic and the Republican nominating campaigns will face each other in November’s general election.