Your Wisconsin winners: Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders. In the big picture, this is pretty good news for Cruz, bad news for Trump, and too little too late for Bernie; for more detailed analysis of what the Wisconsin results mean for the 2016 race as a whole, click here.
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Update, 9:32 p.m.: Fox is calling it for Ted Cruz. What remains to be seen is how many of Wisconsin’s delegates he’ll win; 24 of the state’s 42 delegates are determined by vote totals in individual congressional districts.
Update, 9:25 p.m.: MSNBC is calling the Republican race for Ted Cruz and the Democratic race for Bernie Sanders. CNN’s still not making calls, and it doesn’t look like the AP has projected anything officially either.
Update, 9:20 p.m.: The major networks’ exit polling suggests that Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders will win tonight. (That’s just exit polling, though, not a projection based on actual votes.)
Update, 9:05 p.m.: With polls closing—though there are still lines of people casting their ballots in at least one precinct that MSNBC is showing—both MSNBC and CNN are saying it’s too early to call either party’s primary. Fox News, however, is calling the Democratic race for Bernie Sanders.
Update, 8:57 p.m.: Via Betsy Woodruff of the Daily Beast, a picture of Ted Cruz’s results party. There is something funny about stylishly projecting banal campaign keywords on the wall with mood lighting. It’s the world’s least appealing dance club!
Original post, 8:04 p.m.: It’s party time in Wisconsin!
[Rereads CNN chyron]
Ah, sorry—it’s primary time in Wisconsin. The partying will have to wait for another day, because tonight is all about tallying and discussing the results of the Badger State’s presidential primaries. Polls close at 9 p.m., and we’ll be here tracking projections and results until the cows come home, LOL. (This is a humorous and appropriate turn of phrase to use tonight because Wisconsin is the home of numerous dairy farms.)
For more on how tonight’s results will fit into the larger race, click here. (Long story short: Trump, the Republican front-runner, is expected to lose, which will hurt his chances of getting to the Republican convention with a majority of delegates. The Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, is also expected to lose, but a loss won’t be that damaging to her chances of eventually winning the nomination.)
Let’s go Badgers!
