Posted on 04/05/2016 8:35:28 PM PDT by Steelfish
Ted Cruz Declares Wisconsin ‘A Turning Point’ In The GOP Campaign
By Sean Sullivan and Philip Rucker April 5
MILWAUKEE — Ted Cruz rolled to a landslide victory Tuesday in Wisconsin’s hotly contested Republican presidential primary, capitalizing on a difficult stretch for Donald Trump to cut into the front-runner’s overall delegate lead and deliver a psychological blow to the billionaire mogul.
Though the senator from Texas is reviled by many party leaders for his explosive and polarizing brand of politics, Cruz won over establishment Republicans as well as grass-roots conservative activists across this state who had come together in an urgent push to stop Trump. Late returns showed him leading Trump by a wide margin.
Cruz hopes his Wisconsin win transforms the trajectory of the race. Wisconsin adds a important Midwestern bellwether to the basket of mostly Southern or rural states he has won to date, giving the Texan evidence that he can appeal beyond ultra-conservative and religious voters.
Savoring his biggest night since winning the kickoff Iowa caucuses in February, Cruz declared before cheering supporters here in Milwaukee: “Tonight is a turning point. It is a rallying cry. It is a call from the hardworking men and women of Wisconsin to the people of America: We have a choice — a real choice.”
Trump remains in a favorable position nationally, but Cruz now has fresh momentum heading into future contests and Tuesday’s results increase the possibility that the nomination battle spills onto the floor of the party’s July convention in Cleveland
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Too bad you'll never have balls enough to land a woman as intelligent and attractive as her.
Did you buy extra copies for when the pages got all wrinkled from your drooling?
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Trump won’t be winning much of anything from here on out.
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Idiot, you and the other Norm Lenharts on this site who do a write-in will be writing in that GD Clinton witch, exactly as she wants you to do and just as though you pulled the lever directly for her (and probably exactly the way you elected Obama 2 times).
Maine isn’t East of the Mississippi? You learn something new every day.
No, he's going in a different direction--to the White House!
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Republicans in NY are Cruz’ kind of people.
It’ll be a thing of beauty.
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Trump was never expected to win Wisconsin. Wisconsin is a relatively small number of delegates. The only reason Wisconsin has been hyped is in order to further a narrative. That narrative is “the end of Trump”. We’ve been hearing that for many months now yet it hasn’t happened.
Any delegates that Cruz gets from Wisconsin will be hyped as if a huge number of delegates have been won, dovetailing with the narrative that this is “the end of Trump”.
The fact is that Cruz is a distant second. The chance of him having 1327 delegates is practically zero. The best case scenario for Cruz is that any delegates picked up in Wisconsin, even all of them, only delay the demise of his campaign.
Do you REALLY believe Cruz will be the nominee? Oh, you do!
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Hitlery got her tusche kicked tonight, solidly.
Trumps platform: Make America Great Again
Cruz’s platform: Stop Trump
I honestly forgot about Miaine. It seems like a year ago.
LOL +1.
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Cruz will be the nominee.
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Yeah and Cruz got 17 percent in Florida and Ohio. So what. Trump wins New York for gods sake. Cruz is still very behind in delegates. He didn’t finish above 50 percent in Wisconsin so he shares the delegates.
Yeah winning Utah and Wisconsin in 30 days is impressive....not!
If Cruz had just worn the Cheesehead hat he would have won Wisconsin with 70+% of the vote...
And that would have been his last victory.
Me too. I hate him.
That’s the GOPe’s vote.
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Trump made America great tonight by losing!
And when a braggart loses, that loser smell just won’t wash out.
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It's a nice dream until you wake up and realize that's all it was.
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