U.S. presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s support among Republicans is about even at a national level with party front-runner Donald Trump, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling, as the United States senator picked up a victory in Wisconsin’s primary. Sanders is favoured to win Wyoming’s Democratic caucuses on Saturday, but it offers a small delegate prize. Both have already started focusing on the next big fight – the April 19 NY primary. It marks a homecoming of sorts for several candidates, with Mr Trump, Mrs Clinton and Mr Sanders all boasting roots in the state. Will the Trump campaign be filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission? If Trump had won Wisconsin, Cruz was done, so give the #neverTrumpists that much. If those controversies had an effect, it was to prevent on-the-fence voters from falling to Trump’s side. Had he won in OH last month, he’d have opened a clear path to a winning majority.
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“Tonight is a turning point”.
The state-by-state nominating contests are choosing delegates who will select the presidential nominees at the parties’ national conventions in July.
Trump was unbowed in his defeat.
Trump, seemingly sensing an overwhelming loss in the Badger State, did not hold any campaign events Tuesday night but also didn’t hold back from lashing out at Cruz and accusing the Republican Party of conspiring to unduly deny him the nomination.
The billionaire’s campaign also suggested in the statement that Cruz is illegally coordinating with his own special interest group.
Cruz has outmaneuvered Trump in all the caucus states, beginning in Iowa.
Clinton, a former secretary of state and USA senator, stepped up her criticism of Sanders on Wednesday, saying he lacked a depth of policy understanding and would be unable to accomplish some of his key campaign pledges. This is explained, in part, by demographics: Non-white voters made up 30 percent of the Democratic primary electorate in MI, but just 17 percent in Wisconsin. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had 1,058. “To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward!” Democratic contests award delegates in proportion to the vote, so more narrow victories do little to cut into a frontrunner’s big delegate lead. With 86 delegates at stake in Wisconsin, Sanders will pick up at least 47 and Clinton will gain at least 36. And his only remaining chance for the nomination is stringing together a series of solid, lopsided victories that narrow her lead among pledged delegates and generate a collapse in confidence among unpledged “super delegates” who overwhelmingly favor her so far.
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. With just over a quarter of voters identifying themselves as independents, Sanders won that bloc 71 percent to 28 percent.
In the Republican race, Mr Cruz was poised to collect most of Wisconsin’s 42 Republican delegates.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich ended Tuesday with no delegates. Trump won in the more rural 3rd and 8th congressional districts, giving him six delegates. Among them: a requirement that candidates win a majority of the delegates in at least eight states in order to be considered viable at the convention. “I don’t think they would either lower that or raise it in an effort to prevent Trump”. But if Trump really wants to lead the party and the country, he will have to do better than what he’s done so far. Forty percent said the GOP should nominate someone else under those circumstances.
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“Ted Cruz will win on the second ballot if not on the way in, and he will unite the party”, Walker said on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee. His victory in Wisconsin, beating Clinton 56.4 percent to 43.4 percent with 97 percent of precincts reporting, comes after winning Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, Utah and Idaho.
