Sanders entered Tuesday’s contest on a winning streak, but one that’s hardly denting Clinton’s delegate lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Trump must win 57% of the remaining delegates to lock up the nomination before July – though Cruz will need to win more than 80% to do the same thing. With votes still being counted, it is too early to finalize exact calculations on the delegate count.
In terms of actual policy positions Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have a lot more in common than you probably know.
There were no congratulatory messages from the Trump campaign.
Tonight is a turning point, Cruz told cheering supporters at a victory rally.
For Trump, the pressure is on to respond with some decisive victories in upcoming states to show he is still on the way to assembling the 1,237 delegates needed for the Republican presidential nomination. “Either before Cleveland or at Cleveland … we will win a majority of the delegates”.
The close race in Wisconsin is causing both campaigns to drill down on delegate math, while the Clinton campaign has begun to argue that for Sanders to win the nomination it would require overruling the will of voters, given that more Americans have cast ballots for her. Unfortunately, Republican voters do not seem to think that choice includes John Kasich, who is no moderate and yet is the only Republican left in the race who respects a variety of essential political mores, such as not constantly demonizing your political opponents. So if either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump plans to have a well-choreographed coronation, they better have some very strong victories in the next couple of weeks.
While Trump has been the dominant force in the Republican race, he battled a series of campaign controversies in the lead-up to Wisconsin, including his campaign manager’s legal problems following an altercation with a female reporter and his own awkward stumbles in clarifying his views on abortion.
Trump’s campaign released a blistering statement saying Cruz had been propped up “by countless millions of dollars of false advertising” from anti-Trump Super PACs. Of course, that was after calling challenger Ted Cruz “worse than a puppet” and a “Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses”.
This raises the prospect of a contested convention in July when the delegates meet to choose the party nominee for the November presidential election.
To win a prolonged convention fight, a candidate would need support from the individuals selected as delegates. These nations, knowing that cooperating with the United States will make them targets for terrorists, must first have confidence in the words and deeds of whoever is President of the United States. Wisconsins Republican establishment, including Gov. Scott Walker, has also campaigned aggressively against the businessman. Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich hosted a town hall meeting Friday in Hershey. Sanders has now won six of the past seven Democratic contests. Cruz pocketed at least 33 of the state’s 42 delegates, increasing the likelihood of a contested national convention.
Still trying to brush off his string of gaffes from last week, Trump turned the focus Tuesday back to the issue that ignited his campaign in the first place: illegal immigration.
Because Democrats award delegates proportionally, Mr Sanders’ victory in Wisconsin will not cut significantly into Mrs Clinton’s lead in the pledged delegate count.
Sanders hasn’t been able to sustain momentum in this campaign, and if he’s to have any shot at winning the nomination, that’s exactly what he needs to do: He has to keep winning, by larger margins than he did on Tuesday, in states that mostly do not look like Wisconsin.
This a sketch of an alternative idea for today’s cartoon on Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. And the concept of momentum is what Sanders addressed when he addressed supporters in Wyoming after capturing Wisconsin.
“To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward!” she wrote. Tuesday helps, but the numbers illustrate why Wisconsin was not all that big a deal.
This means that yes, Hillary is a historically weak front-runner, but so is Trump.
“He is getting more powerful as he moves across this country and as people hear him and meet him”, Lawton said.
The poll of 568 Republicans, taken between April 1-5, showed Cruz winning the support of 35 percent of Republicans to Trump’s 39 percent. The interview showed him having difficulty answering some questions about both foreign and domestic policy.
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Sanders would have to get 67 per cent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates to win the nomination, according to AP’s calculations.
