That includes NY, where Mrs Clinton was a Senator, which Mr Sanders would have to win by at least 60 per cent.
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Complicating the primary landscape for both Cruz and Trump is the continuing candidacy of John Kasich.
Pat Buchanan has recently supported the notion that either Ted Cruz or Donald Trump is preferable to an establishment Republican candidate from a brokered or contested convention. Overall, a 35 percent plurality of Republican primary voters said they were scared about a possible Trump presidency, and 17 percent said they would vote for a third party candidate if he were the nominee, while 10 percent would vote for Hillary Clinton if she is the Democratic nominee. Almost 40 percent of likely Republican voters say they would be dissatisfied or upset if Trump became the nominee, while almost as many – 34 percent – say the same about Cruz, according to the poll.
US Senator Bernie Sanders has claimed victory in the Wisconsin primary, saying his campaign is “giving energy and enthusiasm to millions of Americans”.
Sanders’ win will net him a handful of additional delegates, but he’ll still lag Clinton significantly.
On the Democratic side, Sanders notched an important win over Clinton, building on a slate of recent victories in the Western states: Utah, Idaho, Hawaii, Alaska and Washington.
Mr Trump is now focusing on the April 19 primary in his home state of NY, where early opinion polls show him with a commanding lead.
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani told the New York Post Thursday he will vote for Trump, noting Cruz dissed the state for political points in the Iowa caucuses. That would require huge victories by Sanders in upcoming states big and small, including NY.
But although Cruz was keen to talk up the significance of the victory, Trump – despite having been dealt a blow in defeat – still isn’t dead and buried yet. Our friend Pat Buchanan thinks Donald Trump is the candidate to back this election because he has reanimated the conservative-populist voters who have been ignored by the GOP elite since Ronald Reagan left the White House in 1988 and who backed Pat when he ran for president in 1992, 1996 and 2000. “We are trying to get as many people there that are pro-Cruz so that hopefully he would win the second ballot”.
Sanders was also confident of his chances in NY, the state where he was born and that Clinton represented in the Senate. “This is an organized thing by Ted Cruz, in my opinion, to steal the nomination and the Republican Party”, Cowley said.
Kaitlin Krauser, one of the Sanders supporters says if she could convince just one of the people to take a look at her candidate, she will have done her job. “To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward! -H”.
Clinton congratulated Sanders on Twitter and thanked her supporters in Wisconsin.
Clinton didn’t hold a public availability Tuesday night, instead attending a fundraiser in the Bronx, N.Y., where she raised $600,000 for her campaign.
This a sketch of an alternative idea for today’s cartoon on Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
Still, he has a more complicated task than Cruz in slowing his party’s front-runner, since Democratic delegates are doled out on a proportional basis rather than the winner-take-most formula used in Wisconsin by Republicans. While Trump remains the closest to the 1,237 delegate target for now, he’s not taking it for granted.
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On one level, it may seem unusual that the presidential campaigns are at all involved in the delegate selection process.
