Trump and Hillary seek surprise in primary Wisconsin

Hillary Clinton: like Trump, Hillary is not a favorite among Democrats in Wisconsin, where he faces the rising Bernie Sanders

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton face a challenge to their favoritism in the race for presidential American statements Tuesday in Wisconsin (north), where research the place unusually second.

The vote is the first after 10 days of rest in the campaign to choose the nominees, and can be crucial both for Republicans and for Democrats, as the process approaches its final third without any aspirant has won the victory.

For the first time since February, Trump appears behind in the polls and on the defensive. His main rival, Senator ultraconservative Ted Cruz is the favorite in the state producer of milk.

In the Cross of sight is stop the triumphal march Billionaire indication towards the Convention of July party.

But if Trump, who rides on a wave of anger against the "status quo" and the political class, start a win in Wisconsin, could stifle the aspirations of Cruz, the son of a Cuban immigrant.

"If we are here, people, this ends," said Trump in an event held on Monday in the town of La Crosse, west of the state.

Like Trump, Hillary is not a favorite among Democrats in Wisconsin, where he faces the upward Senator Bernie Sanders, who won five of the last six primaries.

But in April appears promising for the former Secretary of State, advancing with a lead of two digits on Sanders in New York - the state where it was Senator - voting on April 19, and Pennsylvania, which goes to the polls one week after.

Trump, the real estate mogul 69, also leads the research in these two states, so the Wisconsin appears as a decisive battle for antiTrump forces.

"To Cross is a very important victory. To Trump, is not a critical defeat," he told AFP Timothy Hagle, professor at the University of Iowa.

"He is right"

But Trump had a difficult week, with its invincibility aura affected by scandals: his recent controversial comments against abortion on the wife of Cruz and against a journalist who reported having been assaulted by businessman campaign director declined further support women, according to research.

Outnumbered in Wisconsin, mogul runs through the state from one side to another, and on Monday received in Milwaukee the company of his Melania wife, born former model in Slovenia, in a rare appearance: an apparent attempt to resume his support among women.

"He is right," said Melania Trump, 45.


The winner of the Republican primary of Wisconsin will win the majority of the 42 delegates at stake. A win would be a major boost to the campaign of the Cross, although their mathematical chances of reaching Trump are very small.