{"id":24394,"date":"2016-04-06T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ted-cruz-bernie-sanders-win-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2016-04-06T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T01:23:00","slug":"ted-cruz-bernie-sanders-win-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ted-cruz-bernie-sanders-win-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders win Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Cruz&#8217;s win in the Badger State is a serious blow to Trump and could alter the trajectory of the Republican race.}<\/p>\n<p>Republican Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders snatched victories in the crucial Wisconsin presidential primary Tuesday, sending a message to frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that their march to the nominations are not foregone conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>US networks including Fox News and NBC called the race for the two underdogs within half an hour of polls closing in the Midwestern state that borders Canada.<\/p>\n<p>With seven per cent of precincts reporting, Cruz, a conservative senator from Texas, was ahead with 49 per cent of the vote compared to 35 per cent for billionaire Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio Governor John Kasich was a distant third at 14 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz&#8217;s win in the Badger State is a serious blow to Trump and could alter the trajectory of the Republican race.<\/p>\n<p>The New York real estate mogul predicted a surprise win Tuesday in Wisconsin, but now faces a narrower path to victory and the 1,237 delegates needed to sew up the Republican nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday also cements Cruz&#8217;s status as the leading anti-Trump candidate, with Kasich far back in the nomination battle.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, Vermont Senator Sanders led with 57 per cent versus 43 per cent for Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>But the former secretary of state can look forward with some confidence to the upcoming races.<\/p>\n<p>She leads Sanders by double digits in New York, her adopted home state which votes April 19, and Pennsylvania, which casts ballots a week later.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also leads handily in his home state of New York and in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11413 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ted.jpg\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz celebrates with his wife Heidi at the American Serb Hall Banquet Center after the polls closed on April 5, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Cruz&#8217;s win in the Badger State is a serious blow to Trump and could alter the trajectory of the Republican race.} Republican Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders snatched victories in the crucial Wisconsin presidential primary Tuesday, sending a message to frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that their march to the nominations are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[101],"byline":[228],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-internationl","byline-afp"],"bylines":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":71}],"contributors":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":71}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24394"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24394"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}