According to the exit polls conducted Tuesday for the Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research, a third of voters Tuesday described themselves as “angry” about the federal government, and Trump managed only to break even with Cruz among those voters.
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Cruz captured most of Wisconsin’s 42 Republican delegates, making it far less likely that Trump would win the 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the nomination outright.
After his victory in Wisconsin, Ted Cruz declared it was a night for unity and hope where young people could look forward to jobs being brought back to the United States. “We have a choice, a real choice”.
Cruz’s double-digit win over Trump was a breakthrough for Republican Party forces battling to block the controversial NY billionaire, and it raised the prospect of a prolonged nomination fight that could last to the July convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trump was unbowed in his defeat.
“He is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr. Trump”, the Trump campaign said.
Hillary Clinton stepped up her criticism of Bernie Sanders following his victory in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, questioning the Vermont senator’s fidelity to the Democratic Party and knocking him for his inability to answer questions in an interview with the New York Daily News. Shortly after arriving on campus, however, Clinton grew more liberal and has been a member of the Democratic Party since her graduation in 1969.
Clinton’s campaign has cast her overall lead as almost insurmountable.
He noted that “three weeks ago the media said that Wisconsin was a flawless state for Donald Trump”.
Clinton congratulated Sanders on Twitter and thanked her supporters in Wisconsin.
Sanders’ win will net him a handful of additional delegates, but he’ll still lag Clinton significantly. Because Democrats award delegates proportionally, a narrow victory by either candidate on Tuesday would mean that both Sanders and Clinton would get a similar number of delegates.
Bernie Sanders emerged from Wisconsin with a solid victory Tuesday, prolonging his dogged but improbable bid to catch Hillary Clinton in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Cruz also rejected talk that establishment Republicans might seek to nominate a new face at the convention, calling it a “fevered pipe dream of Washington that at the convention they will parachute in some white knight”. It marks a homecoming of sorts for several candidates, with Trump, Clinton and Sanders all touting roots in the state.
The poll, released by Quinnipiac University, also shows Republican frontrunner Donald Trump leading Ted Cruz, 39%-30%.
This time, she campaigned lightly here, focusing strategically on cities in congressional districts that played to her strengths, including Milwaukee, where she is popular with a large African American electorate. Complicating the primary landscape for both Cruz and Trump is the continuing candidacy of John Kasich. Kasich, with 143 delegates, has no chance to gather enough delegates to win on the first ballot but hopes to win support during a contested convention. The process of selecting those delegates is tedious, and will test the mettle of Trump’s slim campaign operation. Their party is still bitterly divided, and their search for a presidential nominee a mess. “Primaries here are insane”, Heilemann said, “because this is the home of the national media”.
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But it was a stark turn for Trump with many demographics he’s typically dominated in past GOP contests so far.
