Wisconsin Primary Elections: Live Coverage And Results

Since 24 of Wisconsin’s Republican delegates are awarded on a winner-take-all basis by Congressional district, the geographic split of the GOP vote matters quite a lot. The initial news from the exit polls is pretty good for Cruz, therefore, who leads in four out of five regions of the state. However, Trump narrowly leads Cruz 46-to-43 in Northwest Wisconsin, which means he should be competitive in the 7th and perhaps the 3rd Congressional Districts.

Cruz seems to be doing pretty well tonight, and is winning across a lot of demographics — for instance, he is winning both white college graduates as well as whites with no high school degree, a group that often supports Trump. But exit polls are showing that Trump is winning among those voters who make less than $50,000, those who identify as independent, and those who define their ideology as “moderate” as opposed to “somewhat” or “very” conservative.

The exit polls suggest that Sanders has not fixed his problem with black voters. He is losing them by a margin of 74 percent to 26 percent in Wisconsin. Luckily for him, they made up just 9 percent of voters. Unfortunately for Sanders, they’ll likely make up more than 15 percent of voters in the biggest delegate prizes this month: Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania.