Fresh off winning most of the delegates in the Super Tuesday primaries, Hillary Clinton rallied in Manhattan Wednesday night, getting the mayor and governor to temporarily stop their political feud. Josh Robin filed the following report.
Hillary Clinton is back in New York.
She was home with a who's who of New York political figures.
Clinton may not have unified a Democratic Party, where many want Bernie Sanders as its nominee, but she did get the mayor and governor to - briefly - embrace.
Theirs is a collective goal, with a shared bogeyman in Donald trump.
"There's a lot of finger-pointing and insulting going on over in their primary. Now, maybe some people think that's entertaining, but I tell you, this is serious business. It really matters when you're running for president," Clinton said.
Governor Andrew Cuomo mocked Trump's grand plan for a wall.
"The big wall. A long wall. A thousand-mile wall. Like the China wall, but wider, but higher, but nicer. Good-looking wall. I'm going to build a wall," Cuomo said.
It was a cooler greeting for Mayor Bill de Blasio. A smattering of boos washed over as he exited. It was perhaps organized labor's response to his reluctance to require a union-backed wage on affordable housing.
"Donald Trump offers exclusion, division, negativity," de Blasio said.
But Bernie Sanders comes first. The Vermont senator is flush with cash and says he's not going away.
"In America, it shouldn't just be a billionaire or Wall Street that is able to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to the candidates they like, but ordinary people, young people, senior citizens, who are able to say, 'This is my country. This is where I want it to go.'"
Clinton didn't mention Sanders, instead sticking to a general election she says must usher in healing.
"I honestly believe we need more love and kindness in our country right now," she said.
But behind the scenes, her aides now dismiss Sanders' chances as pie in the sky.
The Democratic contest continues this weekend, with races in Maine, Nebraska, Kansas and Louisiana.