Donald Trump is fighting to put a difficult week behind him and finish strong on Tuesday in Wisconsin, a state whose primary contest may prove to be a turning point in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
The Republican front-runner is at risk of losing the Midwestern state to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, an outcome that would dent the New York billionaire's aura of inevitability and make it harder for him to win the 1,237 delegates needed for the party's nomination for the Nov. 8 election.
On the Democratic side, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is trying to hold on to a slender lead over front-runner Hillary Clinton in the opinion polls in Wisconsin and eke out another victory over the former secretary of state.
Making the climb to the 1,237 delegates required to clinch the GOP nomination tougher for the front-runner are states where the local GOP doesn’t bind delegates to candidates: Delegates from North Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming aren’t required to back a specific candidate, nor are 54 of Pennsylvania’s 71 delegates. Heading into the Wisconsin vote, Mr. Trump must win two-thirds of the remaining bound delegates in other states to clinch the GOP presidential nomination on the convention’s first ballot, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
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