Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are ahead in Wisconsin, new poll shows
Ted Cruz has notched 43 percent support of likely Republican voters in Wisconsin to Donald Trump's 37 percent ahead of the state's Tuesday presidential primary, a CBS News poll out Sunday shows.
Cruz earned the endorsement of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R). He trails Trump in New York and Pennsylvania. The poll's margins of error are 5.7 percent in Wisconsin, 5.6 percent in New York, and 5 percent in Pennsylvania.
On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders has a 2-point lead over Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin, but lags 10 points behind her in New York.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.