Wisconsin Primary Elections: Live Coverage And Results

David Wasserman

Worth noting: Trump is currently ahead in Rock County, which includes Paul Ryan’s home base of Janesville, 43 percent to 36 percent. In the end, however, Cruz is likely to carry Ryan’s 1st District because it includes some of Waukesha County, where Cruz is ahead 61 percent to 22 percent.

Harry Enten

9:43 pm

Pretty big result is coming in on the Republican side: Cruz seems to be winning Dane County (home of Madison) with 40 percent of the vote. He’s doing so even though Kasich is getting 24 percent of the vote there. If Cruz wins Dane, he’ll might win the 2nd Congressional District. That’s a district that pre-election polls indicated might be in play for Kasich and Trump.

Jody Avirgan

9:41 pm

Earlier this evening I posed a question to you, which I had earlier posed to our podcast crew — how would you describe Trump to someone who hasn’t been paying attention to this election at all? Here’s a sampling of the many tweeted responses I’ve been getting:

Elevator pitch for @jodyavirgan: Too many GOP candidates for too long. Result? One speaking to a large, disaffected subset got traction.
— Dan Pfeifer (@MUPfeif) April 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/717511595232989185

@jodyavirgan 1) Trump crowded out stronger candidates in media 2) Delegate rules let him win with plurality 3) Party was unresponsive
— Erich Luepke (@erich_luepke) April 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/mjhillman06/status/717504718763925505

@jodyavirgan Trump's an opportunist who duped pundits to add value to his brand; his implosion is an exit strategy. https://t.co/QkkEDfTe7m
— Data Heretic (@QualityFellow) April 6, 2016

@jodyavirgan A: Cultural disaffected who lean GOP want a strong leader to "fix it", are not ideologically driven.
— Adam DiBiase (@DiBiaseAdam) April 6, 2016

Keep them coming. And perhaps you’d like to tackle this follow-up: How jealous would you be of that person who has doesn’t know anything about this election?!

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