Wisconsin voters will weigh in on the Republican presidential race in Tuesday’s primary after a brutal week for Donald Trump.
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Cruz also rejected talk that establishment Republicans might seek to nominate a new face at the convention, with names circulating like House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan or 2012 nominee Mitt Romney.
Favoring Sanders is that Wisconsin’s primaries are open, meaning voters can participate in either the Democratic or Republican primary, regardless of their party registration.
“I’m not getting out”, Kasich said in the New York Times.
Sanders, a self-declared democratic socialist, has taken his dark-horse candidacy from a mere annoyance to Clinton to a serious challenge for the former secretary of state, who had largely been expected to take the Democrat nomination in a walk when the contest began a year ago. I expect the candidates to fight very hard for every single solitary state that is on the calendar, for every delegate. Changing these polls would require gut renovations of the Trump and Cruz public images that will be hard for either to execute. If Sanders wins, it will be his fourth victory in a row. We also factored in the candidates’ delegate counts and their relative paths to the nomination, as well as their momentum (or lack thereof) over the past few weeks.
A total of 1,273 delegates are needed to win the GOP nomination outright and some political observers doubt that Trump will win that many, which would trigger a contested convention.
Still sanders holds a slight edge in Wisconsin polls.
Still, as of Monday, Cruz was more than 250 delegates behind Trump, according to an Associated Press tally. After Wisconsin, it seems more and more likely that the GOP is going to have a contested convention in July 2016.
Cruz isn’t the only candidate who’s asking Kasich to leave the race – Trump is too.
Still, Trump made a spirited final push in Wisconsin and predicted a “really, really big victory”. The other 24 delegates are divided among districts, where the district victor takes all the delegates assigned there.
This could be a moment where the dynamic of the race, which has been fairly steady as far as Trump is concerned, finally shifts.
Groups aligned to stop Trump targeted Wisconsin as a proving ground because it’s the only Republican primary on the calendar before his home state, New York, votes on April 19.
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“And at this point, Kasich has been mathematically eliminated – he needs more than a 100 percent of the delegates to be the nominee”, Mr. Cruz said. So far, he’s winning 37 per cent. His campaign has been plagued by a series of scandals, from battery charges against campaign manager Corey Lewandowski for his alleged grabbing of a reporter to Trump’s support for South Korea and Japan developing nuclear weapons to his statement that women who get abortions should be punished if the procedure were outlawed.
