“We’re excited about it. It makes it a lot more fun to hear and talk about it”, said Maria Zack, a Ted Cruz supporter who wants to be a GOP delegate.
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Republican Donald Trump has emerged from the Wisconsin primaries as a damaged front-runner following a crushing primary loss to rival Ted Cruz, deepening questions about the billionaire businessman’s presidential qualifications and pushing the Republican Party toward a rare contested convention nomination fight.
More Wisconsin Democratic voters think Bernie Sanders is trustworthy compared to Hillary Clinton. John Kasich, who has won only his home state of OH, continues to siphon votes from both Cruz and Trump in a bid to be kingmaker at what’s increasingly likely to be a brokered GOP convention.
While the Wisconsin result was widely anticipated – the entire party apparatus in the state had, unusually, rallied behind Mr Cruz – it nonetheless left Mr Trump wounded and uncharacteristically on the defensive.
And voters registered with either party who wanted to change their affiliation had to have requested this by October 9 of a year ago for the new enrollment to be applicable in the April primary, according to the New York State Board of Elections.
KDP spokesman Daniel Lowry says Lundergan has endorsed Hillary Clinton.
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.
Donald Trump and Texas Sen. “We can’t understate how unpopular Ted Cruz is in Washington DC”, Moody said. But 29 percent said they’ll vote for someone else or not all.
What remains undetermined is if Cruz’s win will shift the momentum away from Trump.
And while Clinton maintains a strong lead in the delegate count, Wednesday’s poll is another in a string of polls that show Sanders essentially tied with Clinton nationally. This means Sanders is closing within 200 delegates of Clinton with just about half of the total delegates in the nation now pledged. And while 22 of them will be obligated to vote for Trump at the outset of the convention, they’re not necessarily fans.
“Really what that goes to is for voters to ask themselves can he deliver what he is talking about”, she said. They will be awarded on a proportional basis.
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“The next stop for the Republicans is delegate-rich NY, which is winner-take-all, and where Trump has a big lead in the polls”, he added.
