Great job Wisconsin.  All the campaign staff and volunteers should be proud of their accomplishments.  Team Trump winning 44 counties in the state, and Team Cruz winning 24 counties in the state.  [*There was one tie]

Congratulations Team Cruz on the overall victory with 48% of popular vote.

First, The Math:

Going into last night the Delegate race was:

• Donald Trump 752 delegates
• Ted Cruz 469 delegates
• Trump ahead by 283 delegates

Last night Team Cruz won 36 and Team Trump won 6.  So, after last night:
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This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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We anticipate more than one possible Wisconsin results thread, hence the numbering as above. Wisconsin Votes Today:

Race Called for Senator Ted Cruz

Current Delegate Count – Trump: 752, Cruz: 469

Popular vote so far (before today):

1. Donald Trump – 7,863,052
2. Ted Cruz – 5,782,142

Wisconsin is a modified ‘Winner Take All’ delegate distribution – By State and By Congressional District – 42 Delegates total: (more…)

H/t: to WeeWeed for the find.  🙂

We anticipate more than one possible Wisconsin results thread, hence the numbering as above.

Wisconsin Votes Today

Currently Trump is ahead 752 to 469 in delegates.

Popular vote so far:

1. Donald Trump – 7,863,052
2. Ted Cruz – 5,782,142

Wisconsin is a modified ‘Winner Take All’ delegate distribution – By State and By Congressional District:

♦ 24 district delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 8 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates and the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in that district will receive all 3 of that district’s National Convention delegates.

♦ 18 at-large delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 5 bonus delegates plus 3 RNC delegates) are to be bound to the presidential contender receiving the greatest number of votes in the primary statewide.

Total = 42 Delegates Available.  Wisconsin Polls close at 9:00pm Eastern.

• CNN Election HQ – Results Available HERE
• Politico Election HQ – Results available HERE
• New York Times Election HQ – Results Available HERE
• The Green Papers – Election Results and Delegate Tracking HERE

Wayne Michigan will be devastated by this move.  Yet another nail in the manufacturing industry coffin in the U.S.

(Via LA Times) Ford Motor Co. plans to build a $1.6-billion auto assembly plant in Mexico, creating about 2,800 jobs there and shifting small-car production away from the United States at a time when moving jobs south of the border has become a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign.
The company announced that it would open the plant in San Luis Potosi state Tuesday without saying specifically what cars it would build there.
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4:00pm Central – Heavy turnout being reported everywhere. If you are a Wisconsin resident voting today in the presidential primary perhaps you would share a ground report on your neighborhood, polling place, or your town:

IGNORE MEDIA EXIT POLLING !

JUST GO VOTE !

Remember, everything you need to know about polling locations, offices, polling times and required information for voting today is AVAILABLE HERE.  Polls are open until 8:00pm Central / 9:00pm Eastern.  You do not have to be a registered republican to vote in Wisconsin, and Wisconsin has same day voter registration….

So what’s going on out there?

Share your ground report in the comments. Please ignore the insufferable Media Exit Polling Reports – The MSM are notorious for using “exit polls” to “gaslight” (meaning to influence through manipulative deception) regions where elections are taking place.

 Ignore Exit Polls and VOTE ! 

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We have actually been puzzled about why candidate Donald Trump was reluctant to present a very easy, factual and reasonable outline of how it is entirely possible for U.S. policy to incentivize Mexico to pay for the Southern Border Security Wall.
One of the reasons we’ve been puzzled, is simply because the process itself is very easy to initiate.  Personally I think Trump is sandbagging on many of these solutions, preferring to hold back the substance of the policy proposals for the General Election.
However, today Donald Trump presented the simple outline (pdf below) and the liberal media is apoplectic.

In addition, when President Obama received a question about it, Obama showed just how insufferably naïve he is regarding the economics of the proposal.
Here’s the basics.  Mexico takes in approximately $25 billion in money transfers to their economy, mostly from the U.S., per year.  These transfers of cash are called “remittances”.  Trump is proposing a Money Services Compliance action, via the U.S. Treasury (Banking Services and Secrecy Act), that would force a Western Union affidavit (or other institution) to be completed prior to the transfer.
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If you are a Wisconsin resident voting today in the presidential primary perhaps you would share a ground report on your neighborhood, polling place, or your town:

Remember, everything you need to know about polling locations, offices, polling times and required information for voting today is AVAILABLE HERE.  You don’t have to be a registered republican to vote, and Wisconsin has same day voter registration.

So what’s going on out there?

Share your ground report in the comments.  Ignore the media:  

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