Below are updates on Ted Cruz’s Tuesday night win in Wisconsin’s primary. With votes still being counted, it is too early to finalize exact calculations on the delegate count. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the nomination.
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The campaign now moves to large north-eastern states, where polls show Trump holds a significant lead. “It is a rallying cry”, Cruz told supporters in Milwaukee.
In the case of a brokered Republican convention, almost 6 in 10 say the party should nominate the candidate with the most support in the primaries, which so far would be Trump. “Either before Cleveland, or at the convention in Cleveland, together we will win a majority of the delegates, and together we will beat Hillary Clinton in November”. “So there’s no way for John Kasich or Mitt Romney or whoever it is to even get nominated, it’s going to be Donald Trump or Ted Cruz”.
Polls show Mr Trump leading Mr Cruz in his home state of NY by an average of 32 points, according to election tracking website, RealClearPolitics, while Ms Clinton has a 11-point lead over Mr Sanders.
There is no evidence that Cruz and his super PAC coordinated on advertising.
Because Democrats award delegates proportionally, both candidates will add to their tallies.
All eyes are on Wisconsin over in the United States.
But the state was also a ripe target for Cruz.
Cruz has emerged as the best positioned to stop Trump from claiming the nomination before the convention. Before March 15, Kasich wasn’t much on Cruz’s radar. Kasich has only won one state: his home state of Ohio. Kasich, with 143 delegates, has no chance to gather enough delegates to win on the first ballot but has refused to end his candidacy. Of the 17 candidates who started this race, a terrific, talented, dynamic field, five have now endorsed this campaign: Rick Perry and Lindsey Graham and Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina and Wisconsin’s own, Governor Scott Walker.
Sanders won 45 delegates to Clinton’s 31 in Wisconsin, while Cruz led Trump 33 delegates to three. A loss there would be a major political blow for Clinton, who represented the state for eight years in the Senate.
“Please keep this a secret”.
“To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward!” she wrote. She held a “Women for Hillary” town hall meeting in Brooklyn, where she focused squarely on Republicans and rebuked Trump for “peddling prejudice” about women and Muslims.
“Trump is the right person to put in here, because we need somebody who everyone thinks is nuts”, said Tom Podziemski, 67, who cast his ballot in Greenfield, a Milwaukee suburb.
The race will now turn east to NY, and then states like CT and DE that are not natural territory for Cruz. And the former secretary of state is wasting no time welcoming Sanders back to the state where he grew up. She also has a big lead in so-called “superdelegates”, who are party leaders free to back any candidate.
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And Sanders’ vulnerabilities on issues beyond his core economic talking points were on display in an interview with the New York Daily News editorial board that was published Monday.
