States like NY that are far more diverse have proven to be Clinton country.
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Democrat Bernie Sanders also scored a sweeping victory in Wisconsin’s primary that gives him a fresh incentive to keep competing against Hillary Clinton. Sanders would need to win 67 per cent of the remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates to catch up to Clinton.
Democratic primary voters there will award 189 delegates on a proportional basis. When including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton has a wider lead – 1,740 to 1,055. So by getting about 56 percent of the vote, Sanders will wind up with about 56 percent of Wisconsin’s delegates. During the week ahead of the primary, the $2.1 million Sanders spent on broadcast television ads in Wisconsin was about twice as much as Clinton, according to estimates from Kantar Media’s CMAG.
Meanwhile, Sanders continued a recent winning streak in advance of a candidate debate next week followed by the April 19 NY primary. Among Democrats, Sanders, a self-declared democratic socialist, has taken his dark-horse candidacy from a mere annoyance to Clinton to a serious challenge for the former secretary of state, who had largely been expected to take the Democrat nomination in a walk when the contest began previous year.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich ended Tuesday with no delegates.
With his victory Tuesday, Cruz won at least 33 Wisconsin delegates, while Trump carried at least three.
Cruz’s big Wisconsin win raises the possibility that Trump romps in the Northeast, wins California and still comes up just short, throwing the nominating battle into a contested convention. Cruz could win after the first ballot.
Sanders has vowed to stay in the Democratic race through all of the voting contests, and the Vermont senator has raised enough money to make good on that pledge.
The candidate also reminded voters that he is the “only candidate” capable of obtaining the needed number of delegates to become the GOP nominee. So far, hes winning 37 percent.
“With our victory tonight in Wisconsin, we have now won seven out of eight of the last caucuses and primaries… and we have won nearly all of them with overwhelming, landslide numbers”, Sanders told supporters in Wyoming, where he’s hoping to get another victory in the state’s caucuses on Saturday. Nine in 10 Democratic voters said Sanders was “honest and trustworthy, ” compared with to 6 in 10 who said the same of Clinton. A majority of GOP voters said they’re either concerned about or scared of a potential Trump presidency, according to surveys conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.
Actress Susan Sarandon, a strong supporter of Sanders, drew criticism recently when she said she didn’t know whether she could bring herself to vote for Clinton if Sanders lost. Each candidate needs 1,237 delegates to clinch it before the convention in July and it’s still plausible Trump gets there.
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Asked who would have a better chance of beating Clinton in November, 44 percent said Cruz would, 35 percent said Trump would and 17 percent said the same of Kasich. Trump criticized Walker’s record while campaigning in Wisconsin. He was embroiled in a spat involving Cruzs wife, which he now says he regrets, was sidetracked by his campaign managers legal problems after an altercation with a female reporter, and stumbled awkwardly in comments about abortion. After the interviews were completed, the two samples were combined and balanced to reflect the 2013 American Community Survey one-year estimates for age, gender, income, race and region.
