Trump trails Cruz in new Wisconsin poll

Washington, April 5: Less than 24 hours before Wisconsin Republicans ballot in the state’s primary on Tuesday, a new survey has said that New York billioire developer Dold Trump trailed Texas Setor Ted Cruz by five points in the state. According to the Emerson College Polling Society survey on Monday, Cruz garnered 40 percent of support compared to Trump’s 35 percent among likely GOP voters there, Xinhua reported.

The survey also found that Trump was viewed more unfavourably by Wisconsin’s likely GOP primary voters than Cruz.

The survey was the latest in a series of recent polls which showed Trump trailing Cruz, sometimes by 10 points.

Mathematically, a win in Wisconsin would not make Trump’s path to the party nomition, neither would his loss there break his chance. Only 42 delegates would be up for grabs in Wisconsin and the primary was not a winner-take-all one.

However, a loss in Wisconsin could be a big setback for Trump, since the state’s blue-collar demographics along with voting rules allowing independent voters to cast ballots in the state primary were supposed to work in Trump’s favour.

A loss there would also mean an even more precarious path for Trump to garner 1,237 delegates before the party convention in July.

According to the latest delegate count by the New York Times, Trump had so far won 735 delegates, 502 delegates short of the majority he needs to clinch the nomition. Anti-Trump Republicans had already suggested that if Trump could be stopped at the first ballot at the nomiting convention in July, there might be a chance to stch the nomition from the New York billioire developer at a contested convention. (IANS)