Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has decisively won the Wisconsin primary, complicating front-runner Donald Trump’s path to the nomination.<\/p>\n
In the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders scored a strong victory over Hillary Clinton in the Midwestern state.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump leads the Republican race, but could fall short of the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s nomination.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump’s rivals have pinned their hopes on a contested convention.<\/p>\n
At a contested convention, party leaders, not voters, would choose the nominee.<\/p>\n
“Tonight is a turning point, it is a rallying cry to the people of America,” Mr Cruz told supporters in Milwaukee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“We are winning because we are uniting the Republican Party.”<\/p>\n
Mr Cruz is unlikely to earn enough delegates to win the nomination outright, but Republican Party leaders have rallied around the Texas senator in hopes of wounding Mr Trump.<\/p>\n
For nine months now it has seemed that Donald Trump could say and do whatever he liked without there being consequences.<\/p>\n
But then he took on women. Well to be strictly accurate he had taken on women before, with seemingly no ill effect.<\/p>\n
But then a few things came together in quick succession.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump said on Tuesday he would prevail despite the loss and took aim at his rival.<\/p>\n
“Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet – he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination,” the Trump campaign said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Party leaders are concerned that Mr Trump would be a weak candidate in the general election and could harm other Republicans lawmakers on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Polls show that the real estate tycoon is extremely unpopular among key voting blocs including women, Latinos and young people.<\/p>\n
Marlow Mittelstaedt holds a sign and cheers while waiting for the arrival of Democratic presidential candidate Sen.<\/p>\n
New York will be a key test for the Sanders campaign<\/p>\n
On the Democratic side, Wisconsin adds to a recent spate of wins by the Sanders campaign, giving the Vermont senator a boost before key races in New York and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Mr Sanders won nearly every county in the state except Milwaukee, but as delegates are awarded proportionally he will not gain a significant advantage over Mrs Clinton.<\/p>\n
Of the 86 Wisconsin delegates, Mr Sanders is on course for at least 44, but Mrs Clinton will have at least 28.<\/p>\n
Addressing supporters in Wyoming, which holds its primary on Saturday, Mr Sanders stressed momentum was on his side and that his outsider candidacy could change the status quo.<\/p>\n
“Real change never takes place from the top down; it always takes place from the bottom up,” Mr Sanders told supporters.<\/p>\n
Mrs Clinton still holds a sizeable lead and most analysts say she will eventually become the Democratic nominee despite her recent losses.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n
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