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Wisconsin primary: Sanders beats Clinton as Cruz crushes Trump – live Wisconsin primary: Sanders beats Clinton as Cruz crushes Trump – live
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Cruz: result 'a turning point' Trump: 'party bosses attempting to steal the nomination'
Cruz addresses supporters, blessing the great state of Wisconsin and thanking governor Scott Walker. The Washington Post has a Trump camp statement. It does not offer Ted Cruz congratulations on his resounding win. It accuses Cruz of rigging the election and calls him a “puppet”:
He calls the result a “turning point, a rallying cry.” “Ted Cruz is worse than a puppet – he is a Trojan horse, being used by the party bosses attempting to steal the nomination from Mr Trump.”
“The national political terrain began to change two weeks ago” with a big win in Utah, Cruz says. NEW: Trump campaign statement tonight pic.twitter.com/ycqP3IJYWn
“Then just three days ago in Colorado, two congressional districts voted... we won all six” delegates. 3.27am BST
Cruz says that North Dakota delegates who specified support for a presidential candidate a couple days ago went 18-1 for Cruz over Trump. 03:27
It is really something to re-view Sanders’ campaign announcement last 30 April. The message hasn’t changed much. The crowds have.
When @BernieSanders announced 11 months ago, he had no supporters, no real staff. Not even any notes for remarks.https://t.co/MJhyBTIzBK
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Sanders proclaims momentum. The media consigned him to the fringe 18 months ago, he says. He was down 60-70 points. He is now even with Clinton in some national polls.
“That’s momentum.”
He thanks Wisconsinites, makes a point about his polling well against Trump and falls into his stump speech.
“There is nothing that we cannot accomplish” if people vote in large numbers, Sanders says.
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Sanders speaking in Wyoming
Sanders has joined a crowd of ecstatic supporters in Wyoming, which votes Saturday (Democrats at least).
“I was told that there were about 5,000 people who participated in the last Wyoming caucus,” he says. “It looks like all of them are here tonight. Thank you!”
“We won in Wisconsin!”
Cheers cheers.
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Now that the statewide winners have been settled, what important questions are left unanswered? Clinton tweets her congratulations:
Here are two: can Donald Trump capture a single congressional district, thereby winning three delegates – or might he win a couple? Congrats to @BernieSanders on winning Wisconsin. To all the voters and volunteers who poured your hearts into this campaign: Forward! -H
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Will the seven-point lead Bernie Sanders is currently sitting on hold up? 03:11
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Matt Laslo Cruz concludes with this:
Bernie Sanders remains on a roll, at least in predominantly white and working class states. With his projected Wisconsin win over Hillary Clinton tonight, he’s now taken six for seven of the last states to weigh in on who will be the Democratic standard bearer in November. Hillary, get ready. Here we come.
Team Clinton is playing it cool though, highlighting that Sanders’s path to the nomination would require him to win each of the remaining states that have massive numbers of delegates at stake – New York, Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey – by at least 60%, which Clinton’s aides believe is nearly impossible. His supporters are excited at the line. For good measure he tweets it:
Sanders’s Wisconsin win makes next week’s Democratic debate all the more important to his campaign before New York voters cast their ballots on 19 April. So Hillary, get ready — here we come!
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Sanders projected to win Wisconsin
Bernie Sanders is the projected winner of the Wisconsin Democratic primary, according to AP.
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Are we on the way to an open Republican convention on 18-21 July? Look out Cleveland...
The official soundtrack of tonight with Cruz's big win in Wisconsin. https://t.co/rVOUj0yTq6
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Matt Laslo
By giving Ted Cruz another key victory, Wisconsin conservatives may have dealt a severe blow to Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations, but Cruz still hasn’t gained a clear path to victory.
The magic number to clinch the Republican nomination is 1,237 delegates and, barring a miracle or a catastrophe, none of the remaining three GOP candidates have a good path to solidifying that number. But the #NeverTrump movement seems to be coalescing around Cruz, even though he’s loathed by the Republican establishment in Washington.
The establishment choice, Ohio governor John Kasich, keeps racking up losses, but he keeps telling his supporters that he’s a winner at heart – and that he can dislodge his opponents at what now seems likely to be a contested convention. That’s as uncertain as any other possibility.
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Sanders seizes on reports of victory
Bernie Sanders has sent an email declaring victory in Wisconsin, apparently based on the strength of early returns and the decision of at least one network to call it for him.
“Sisters and Brothers,” the email begins:
Moments ago the news networks called another state for our political revolution, and it’s a big one: Wisconsin.
The corporate media and political establishment keep counting us out, but we keep winning states and doing so by large margins. If we can keep this up, we’re going to shock them all and win this nomination.
The statement declares momentum and projects victory:
Tonight kicked off the most important three week stretch of the campaign, and we did it with another overwhelming victory. If we can keep our momentum going through the states that vote and caucus over the next three weeks, we’re going to win this election.
The margin of victory is crucial on the Democratic side, which awards delegates proportionally. With only 7% of results in, Sanders sits on a solid lead.
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Cruz projected winner of Wisconsin Strong women can accomplish anything in the United States of America.
Ted Cruz is the Republican victor in Wisconsin, AP projects. – Texas senator Ted Cruz
Thank you Wisconsin! Help us #CruzToVictory —> https://t.co/0rbpaoRTtU pic.twitter.com/ix0WfpOgYG 3.04am BST
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The Clinton campaign contributes a statement now to the stack, accusing the Sanders camp of trying to override the will of voters:
“It seems the Sanders campaign is finally seeing the writing on the wall: Hillary has won more votes AND more pledged delegates in this election – her lead in both is nearly insurmountable,” reads a statement by campaign manager Robby Mook:
So this morning, Bernie’s campaign manager claimed the convention could be an “open convention,” and declared they’re going to try and flip delegates’ votes, overturning the will of the voters.
Your vote is your voice, and the Sanders campaign shouldn’t be trying to circumvent the process – or the nearly 9 million (and counting) people who have made their voice heard for Hillary in this election.
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A subdued Clinton watch party
Megan Carpentier
It was a subdued crowd that gathered at La Perla (no, not *that* La Perla – a Mexican restaurant of the same name) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for Mayor Tom Barrett’s election watch party for Hillary Clinton supporters.
People chatted in small groups and stared at their phones, clustered around one of two televisions turned to the election results; the station, WISN, also had a camera at the party doing live stand-ups, so one could occasionally watch a head swivel from staring at the person being interviewed to the interview airing on television.
People were sipping sickly-sweet pre-made margaritas out of plastic glasses and watching Ted Cruz’s lips move on a muted television while Adolecentes Orquestra’s “Persona Ideal” blared on the sound system when the race was called for Sanders on the television’s crawl and on their phones. A few grimaces, and the Clinton supporters turned back to the television and their conversations, as the mostly-local reporters got to work.
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As Cruz continues to speak, the Republican national committee releases a statement ripping Clinton for losing six of the last seven state contests to “a 74-year-old socialist”:
Losing six of the last seven states at this stage of the race once again highlights the fact Hillary Clinton is a weak candidate running a campaign with no clear message. For months we heard from the Clinton camp that they’d have the nomination wrapped up by March, but as we head into April she’s still struggling to put away a 74 year-old socialist who never before sought office as a Democrat.
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Cruz: 'Wisconsin has lit a candle'
“We are not here to curse the darkness but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness.
“Tonight, Wisconsin has lit a candle guiding the way forward.”
"We are not here to curse the darkness, we shall be in danger of losing the future" says Cruz gnomically, losing people standing next to him
“Tonight is about humility and tonight is about hope.”
Cruz says he’ll bring jobs back to the USA by “repealing Obamacare, reigning in the federal regulators that are killing small businesses, passing a flat tax and abolishing the IRS.
“We will unleash incredible economic growth, our border will finally be made secure and sanctuary cities will end.”
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Cruz cruises in crucial Waukesha Cruz: 'We will beat Hillary Clinton'
Ben Jacobs Cruz: “Just how significant is tonight? Well just today, our campaign has raised over $2m. People all over the country going to tedcruz.org, tedcruz.org, tedcruz.org.
Early returns in Waukesha County, a deep-red jurisdiction in the heart of suburban Milwaukee, show Ted Cruz winning in a landslide, writes Guardian politics reporter Ben Jacobs: Cruz says he probably gained over 100 delegates on Trump in the last three weeks. He says he can get to 1,237, which defies the math.
The Texas senator has nearly 60% of the vote in an area which has long been the Republican base in the Badger State. In the racially polarized Milwaukee area, statewide Republicans have long relied on running up the score in Waukesha to win general elections. It seems among these suburban voters, Cruz is the favorite. We will win a majority of the delegates, and together we will beat Hillary Clinton in November. Tonight was a bad night for Hillary Clinton. It was a bad night for her in the Democratic primary and it was an even worse night for her in the Republican primary.
Early returns see Ted Cruz with a crucial lead in a suburban Milwaukee jurisdiction pic.twitter.com/EGMlmMcKwU Updated
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And now for exit polling results – to be consumed with a grain of salt – on the Democratic side.
Sanders performs well with young voters:
Bernie Sanders won 81% of voters under 30 pic.twitter.com/uUhyEZyZ3u
While Clinton appears to win over African Americans by nearly as high a margin:
Hillary Clinton won three out of four black voters in Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/TMR6NaUwta
Sanders wins men about 3-2, while women vote at about an even split:
In contrast to GOP primary, major gender gap among Democrats pic.twitter.com/2ko2APLWuN
And Sanders wins voters who say a potential Wisconsin terror attack is low on their list of fears:
Bernie Sanders cleaned up among voters not worried about a terrorist attack in Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/S91kJPNClV