If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere -- or so they say. And now, after competing press releases and months of negotiations, the two have their chance to show which one of them is ready to make it all the way to the White House. 
 
 A political subway series, if you will, ladies and gentlemen. Two (sort of) New Yorkers battle it out on the debate stage again just days before the Empire State votes on Tuesday, April 19. 
 
 Here's what to look for tonight: 
 
 A NEW YORK ONE-MAN UPMANSHIP 
 
 Will the real New Yorker please stand up? Over the past few weeks, Clinton and Sanders have showed off their New York City chops as they’ve campaigned across the five boroughs. Clinton —- who lives in Westchester County north of New York City, is a former senator with campaign headquarters based in Brooklyn -- made a stop for cheesecake at Juniors diner in Brooklyn and took a subway ride in the Bronx. Sanders, who was born in Brooklyn, held campaign events in front of his childhood home and iconic locations such as Coney Island and Washington Square Park. Tonight at the debate, the two candidates could likely try to one up each other about who lays greater claim to the Empire State. 
 
 THE QUALIFIED SPAT 
 
 In recent weeks, Clinton and Sanders have engaged in a back-and-forth spat about who is -- or isn’t -– qualified to be president. Sanders first said Clinton was not qualified to be president and incorrectly said she had said he wasn’t. Then he backtracked -– slightly -- and said his opponent is both qualified and unqualified to be president. Clinton, meanwhile, said “yes” Sanders is qualified for the job, but then went on to question his policy proposals and experience. Sanders’ interview with the New York Daily News editorial board, where he stumbled during a question about his Wall Street plan, only added fuel to the fire. "I noticed that under the bright spotlight and scrutiny here in New York Senator Sanders has had trouble answering questions,” Clinton told reporters. Tonight will be the first time the two candidates can confront each other about the feud. 
 
 WALL STREET & TERROR 
 
 In a debate held in New York City, there’s no question both Wall Street and terrorism are bound to come up. Just this week, Sanders criticized a $5 billion settlement Goldman Sachs reached with the Justice Department and debuted a new ad criticizing the bank (which, as he’ll be the first to point out, has paid Clinton six-figures for a speech). Tonight’s debate is also the first since the terror attacks in Brussels. Since then, Clinton has played up the commander in chief aspect of the job and played up her foreign policy experience, in some ways suggesting her opponent isn’t as tough. 
 
 A FRACK-TIVIST 
 
 A staunch opponent to hydraulic fracking, Sanders this week proposed a national ban on the controversial shale gas extraction technology. While speaking in cities in upstate New York in particular, Sanders used this to draw a sharp contrast between himself and Clinton, who as Secretary of State, on occasion advocate for fracking abroad. New York state banned fracking a year ago after a large push by activists and so by highlighting this component of his environmental policy, Sanders also gets to talk about and hype up the recent successes of grassroots organizers. Expect the Sanders, who is relying on the mobilization of progressives, to talk about this issue. 
 
 THE ‘MO’ 
 
 The underdog candidate has picked up steam with victories in seven out of the last eight contests. On then eve of the debate, Sanders’ campaign threw another mega-rally in the heart of downtown Manhattan too that drew over 27,000 people, according to estimates from the campaign. “I don’t think that there is any doubt but that our campaign today has the momentum,” Sanders proclaimed during his Wednesday night rally. On the other hand, Clinton has maintained her significant lead in the delegate math and on the trail dismisses charges about the enthusiasm around Sanders’ campaign, by reminding people that she has received more votes than he has. Expect both candidates tonight to argue that their campaign is the one on the move. ||||| Annie Leibovitz is reportedly set to shoot the story. 
 
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 For Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, victories in New York Tuesday could help quiet critics who have questioned their strength as front-runners. Each has suffered losses in recent contests that emboldened their rivals, though they still lead in delegate counts and are favored in New York. 
 
 Clinton, who represented the state as a senator for eight years, spent the final hours of campaigning trying to drive up turnout among women and minorities, her most ardent supporters. Since Sunday, she's danced to Latin music at a Brooklyn block party, vowed to defend abortion rights to female supporters in Manhattan, prayed at black church in Westchester, drunk a bubble tea at a dumpling shop in Flushing and cheered newly unionized workers in Queens. 
 
 "We're not taking anything for granted," she said Monday after greeting workers at the Hi-Tek Car Wash & Lube in Queens. "Tell your friends and your family, everyone, to please vote tomorrow." 
 
 Clinton's campaign was blunter in outlining the state of the Democratic race. Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook declared the primary effectively over, saying Sanders faced a "close to impossible path to the nomination." With the contest between Sanders and Clinton becoming increasingly tense, Mook said the Vermont senator had to choose whether he wanted to stay on a "destructive path" that could hurt the party's eventual nominee. 
 
 Sanders has rattled off a string of wins in recent primaries and caucuses. But unless he can topple Clinton in a delegate-rich state like New York, he faces increasingly limited opportunities to change the trajectory of the race. 
 
 While polling shows Clinton with a comfortable lead in New York, Sanders held out hope for a closer race. 
 
 "This is a campaign on the move," Sanders shouted to a crowd of thousands gathered along the waterfront in Queens Monday night, with the Manhattan skyline serving as a dramatic backdrop. "This is a movement getting the establishment very, very nervous." 
 
 For Trump, New York is an opportunity to rebound from a trying stretch for his campaign — and with an exclamation point. The biggest question for him heading into Tuesday is whether he captures more than 50 percent of the vote statewide, which would put him in strong position to win all of the state's 95 GOP delegates. 
 
 Trump was closing his New York campaigning with an evening rally in Buffalo, where thousands packed the city's hockey arena to catch a glimpse of the billionaire businessman. He's spent the past week emphasizing his ties to New York, particularly New York City, where he was born and where buildings bear his name. 
 
 "We love this city," he said Monday in brief remarks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower. "You look at the other folks that are running, they couldn't care less about New York." 
 
 A big win for Trump is crucial if he hopes to clinch the nomination before the party's convention in July. If the race isn't settled by then, he faces the very real prospect of losing to Ted Cruz, whose campaign is mastering the complicated process of lining up individual delegates who could shift their support to the Texas senator after the first round of convention balloting. 
 
 In New Mexico Monday, the state Republican Party announced a two-week extension for delegate applicants who missed an April 15 deadline. Cruz allies in the state criticized the move as a ploy by the Trump campaign as it tries to catch up with his rival's operation. 
 
 "This is truly Trump," said state lawmaker Rod Montoya, who has applied to be a delegate to the national convention. "Rather than learning how the process works, he cries and complains to get the process changed because he doesn't like it." 
 
 Cruz, who infamously panned Trump's "New York values" earlier in the primary, was bracing for a tough showing in Tuesday's contest. He was already looking ahead on the primary calendar, spending Monday campaigning in Maryland, where voters head to the polls next week. 
 
 Trump leads the GOP race with 744 delegates, ahead of Cruz with 545 and Kasich with 144. It takes 1,237 to win the GOP nomination. 
 
 Among Democrats, Clinton has accumulated 1,758 delegates to Sanders' 1,076. Those totals include both pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses, as well as superdelegates, the party insiders who can back the candidate of their choice regardless of how their state votes. 
 
 Heading into Tuesday's primary, Sanders needs to win 68 percent of the remaining delegates if he hopes to clinch the Democratic nomination. It takes 2,383 to win. 
 
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 AP writers Hope Yen, Lisa Lerer, Steve Peoples, Julie Bykowicz and Morgan Lee contributed to this report. 
 
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– If Hillary Clinton's going to win over New Yorkers before the state's April 19 primary, first she's got to prove she can master the NYC subway system. And she had a little trouble Thursday in the Bronx when, just like nearly every other Big Apple commuter has experienced, she tried to swipe her MetroCard to get through a turnstile and failed not once, but four times, reports BuzzFeed. The site has an animated GIF display of Clinton's persistence in all of her in-vain attempts, finally making it through on the fifth swipe. But as Politico points out, Bernie Sanders doesn't exactly have this in the bag, either. When he sat down with the New York Daily News on Friday, his interrogators asked him if he knew how to ride the subway. The Brooklyn native seemed confused as to what the reporter meant at first, then replied, "You get a token and you get in." (Tokens were discontinued in 2003.) When he was told he was wrong, he recovered with: "You jump over the turnstile." (Too bad Hillary wasn't on the subway when Improv Everywhere pulled off its latest prank.)