Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders lead Wisconsin presidential primaries in a new Marquette Law School Poll released Wednesday.
The poll finds Cruz ahead in the Wisconsin Republican presidential primary race with support from 40 percent of likely voters, compared to 30 percent for business mogul Donald Trump and 21 percent for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The poll also finds Sanders leading by a slim margin of 49 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 45 percent.
Results released in this new poll deviate from the previous poll results released in February, in which Trump led the Republican race with 30 percent, ahead of Cruz with 19 percent and Kasich with 8 percent. In the February poll results, Sanders led narrowly with support from 44 percent of likely voters compared to the 43 percent support Clinton held.
In the new poll, independents chose the Republican primary over the Democratic primary by 60 percent to 40 percent. Wisconsin is an open primary, meaning undecided voters can elect to vote in either party race in the April 5 election.
Regardless of who voters respectively supported, a majority of Republican primary voters forecast Trump as the likely winner of the primaries, while the Democratic voters predict Clinton as their winner.
Republican primary voters who view Trump as the most likely to win the Republican nomination almost doubled from February. The number of Democratic voters who view Clinton as the most likely to win the Democratic primaries also rose.
In Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race Democratic challenger Russ Feingold leads with 47 percent of voters to Republican incumbent Ron Johnson’s 42 percent.
