As Cruz romped agains Trump, Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in a must-win for his campaign. But if a candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote within a congressional district, he’ll win all three. While the billionaire businessman still leads the Republican field, Cruz and other anti-Trump forces hope Wisconsin marks a turning point in the chaotic Republican nominating contest.
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Donald J. Trump withstood the onslaught of the establishment yet again.
“Cruz said in his victory speech that he can still get to the 1,237 delegates needed to capture the nomination before the primaries are over, or at the convention this summer”.
Mr Trump entered the night with 737 convention delegates to Mr Cruz’s 481, leaving him 500 delegates short of the 1,237 needed to become the party’s nominee in the 8 November election.
In a sign of Mrs Clinton’s low expectations in the Midwestern state, she spent Tuesday night at a fundraiser with top donors in New York City, which will hold its critical primary on April 19.
It is true that Trump’s route to the Republican nomination is now far from the gilded path he would have liked.
Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders also won in Wisconsin, gaining momentum in his fight against front-runner Hillary Clinton and trimming her commanding lead in delegates.
Cruz runs well among those who said they are “very conservative” as he has in previous primaries, but he also edges out Trump among those who said they are “somewhat conservative”.
For the Republican Texas senator, he’s on pace for a almost double-digit win over Donald Trump, increasing the likelihood of a contested Republican convention this July in Cleveland.
Cruz has stepped forward as the candidate best positioned to block Trump, though it would likely take a convention battle to accomplish that goal. “We are winning because we are uniting the Republican Party”. But he’d already moved on to campaigning in NY, where he sees vulnerability for a candidate like Cruz among a more moderate GOP.
The delegate majority is an important threshold for Trump because many political analysts predict his chances of winning at the convention are slim.
Sen. Ted Cruz picked up the win on the Republican side, while Sen.
Among Democrats, 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. None has so far endorsed Trump. In order for Cruz to win the nomination, he needs more than 80 percent of the remaining delegates.
There are 86 pledged delegates and 10 superdelegates up for grabs by the Democrats, and no matter who wins, it won’t make-or-break the nomination for them.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks with rival Ted Cruz during a commercial break in the midst of the Republican presidential candidates debate sponsored by CNN at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida March 10, 2016.
