Trump continues to dominate the delegate race, with 740 pledged delegates to 514 for Cruz and 143 for Kasich.
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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. In a memo to supporters, Robby Mook wrote that Sanders’ strategy now is “a combination of trying to flip pledged delegates at state and county conventions, while also convincing superdelegates that he deserves their support”. Trump’s campaign manager was charged with assault and the NY businessman riled voters with comments about punishment for women who have illegal abortions. Once again, they elected six delegates and of those six delegates we won all six…And now tonight here in Wisconsin, a state that just three weeks ago the media had written off. Three weeks ago the media said Wisconsin was a ideal state for Donald Trump. Cruz and Trump were also briefly about even early last week.
Trump with a double-digit lead over both Cruz and John Kasich in NY and Pennsylvania, according to the latest CBS News Battleground Tracker.
Trump’s defeat was a missed opportunity to stamp out the movement to stop him.
Sanders said his momentum gives him an “excellent chance” to win California, Oregon and other states.
“With our victory tonight is Wisconsin, we have now won 7 out of 8 of the last caucuses and primaries”, he declared.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz and Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders have emerged victorious in the crucial Wisconsin presidential primary.
As polls closed Tuesday night in Wisconsin, Texas Sen.
Clinton congratulated Sanders on Twitter and thanked her supporters in Wisconsin.
That means Sanders must still win 67 percent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates in order to win the Democratic nomination.
Mr Trump leads the Republican race, but there are concerns that he could fall short of the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s nomination.
Nonetheless, it was the sixth win in a row for Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major party nominating contests.
Clinton’s campaign has cast her lead as almost insurmountable.
Leaders in both parties are eager to turn their attention toward the general election.
While the Cruz and Sanders wins in Wisconsin won’t necessarily lessen the odds against either winning their party’s nomination, the losses by the front-runners keep an aura of uncertainty hanging over both races.
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Mr. Cruz said the victory is a sign of his growing momentum, and highlighted the backing he has received from five of his former GOP presidential rivals, as well as the recent contests in Utah, Colorado and North Dakota that he said has convinced him he is going to earn the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination before the Republican National Convention. A third of Wisconsin GOP voters say that if Trump and Clinton are the nominees they’d vote for a third party candidate, stay home or even vote for Clinton. So far, he’s only winning 37 percent.
