Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer cruised to landslide victories in New York state’s Democratic primary day, turning back long-shot challengers on a night that produced a string of lopsided state-wide contests.

New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani says he will talk to the city’s mayoral candidates and try to come up with a plan that would give him a continuing role in New York’s recovery from the World Trade Centre disaster.