“Tonight, Wisconsin has lit a candle, guiding the way forward”. “What an incredible victory tonight”, Cruz said in his victory speech in Milwaukee, joined by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a former rival who had endorsed him. That’s where delegates from MI will find out who is going to the national convention in July.
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In an interview with statehouse reporter Bente Birkeland, Steve House, the Chair of the Colorado GOP, says the state plays a pivotal role in who the Republican presidential nominee may be.
But the boost might be short-lived, said experts. “Ted Cruz goes against everything our school stands for”, Destiny Domeneck, 16, told the New York Daily News.
The New York State primary is April 19, while Pennsylvania’s is April 26.
The poll released Thursday found 39 percent of likely GOP voters back Trump, while 32 percent support Cruz, 18 percent support Ohio Gov. John Kasich and 11 percent are undecided or plan to support someone else.
The poll was taken before Cruz’s Wisconsin win on Tuesday, which made it more hard for Trump to accumulate the 1,237 delegates he needs to be nominated at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Ted Cruz, not front-runner Donald Trump.
Fourteen percent of those polled said they are “more proud” that Trump is a New Yorker, compared to 13 percent who said “more embarrassed”. Because of his appeal to a broader cross-section of voters, Mr. Trump has won most primaries, especially open ones like Wisconsin’s where anybody can vote regardless of party registration.
Trump’s unfavorability has risen in recent weeks, climbing from 58% in mid-February to 69%, according to this week’s poll.
The candidate kept to his well-honed talking points – “the wall”, keeping jobs in the United States, “winning again” – but did offer a few nods to his home state crowd, too.
Given how the party’s race awards delegates proportionately, Sanders needs to win big in the remaining 21 Democratic contests to show he can do more than raise doubts about Clinton’s candidacy, but rather beat her convincingly.
Mr Sanders, however, sounded upbeat about his chances. “Which is an indication to me that they believe that they are either in trouble in NY or they want to make certain that he wins his home state”, said MSNBC Republican Analyst, Rick Tyler.
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The new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll gives Clinton a 55 percent to 40 percent over Sanders among likely Democratic voters.
