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		</div><p>The Wisconsin presidential primary is emerging as a crucial lifeline for Republicans desperate to stop Donald Trump&#8217;s march to their party&#8217;s nomination.</p>
<p>One of his worst weeks of the 2016 campaign is colliding with a state already sceptical about his brash brand of politics.</p>
<p>A big loss for Mr Trump in Wisconsin on Tuesday would greatly reduce his chances of securing the delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination before next July&#8217;s national convention.</p>
<p>It could also offer new hope to rival Ted Cruz and outside groups that see Mr Trump as a threat to the future of the Republican Party.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the whole country is looking to Wisconsin right now to make a choice in this race, and I think the choice Wisconsin makes is going to have repercussions for a long time to come,&#8221; Mr Cruz said.</p>
<p>Mr Trump&#8217;s view is rosier for his own campaign: &#8220;If we win Wisconsin, it&#8217;s pretty much over.&#8221;</p>
<p>But almost nothing has gone right for him since Wisconsin stepped into the primary spotlight.</p>
<p>Even before he arrived, Mr Trump was skewered in interviews with a trio of Wisconsin&#8217;s influential conservative talk radio hosts.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, just hours before his first campaign stop, two-term governor Scott Walker threw his support behind Mr Cruz, of Texas.</p>
<p>Much of the trouble that followed was of the Trump campaign&#8217;s own making.<br />
Corey Lewandowski, Mr Trump&#8217;s campaign manager, was charged with assault for an altercation with a reporter.</p>
<p>Then Mr Trump was forced into a U-turn on his assertion that women should be punished for getting abortions, a comment that managed to unite both sides of the abortion debate in fierce opposition to his statement.</p>
<p>&#8220;As soon as he stepped foot in Wisconsin the mask finally came off,&#8221; said Jim Steineke, the Republican majority leader in the Wisconsin Assembly.<br />
&#8220;Part of it is just the Wisconsin nice. We don&#8217;t take too kindly to people who act the way Donald Trump acts.&#8221;</p>
<p>A week before the primary, a poll run by Marquette University Law School showed Mr Trump lagging behind Mr Cruz by about 10 points &#8211; a dramatic fall for the candidate who led in the same poll last month.</p>
<p>If Mr Cruz sweeps all the delegates in Wisconsin, Mr Trump will need to win 57% of the remaining delegates in other states to collect the 1,237 he needs to clinch the nomination. So far, he has won 48% of all delegates awarded.</p>
<p>Wisconsin offers 42, putting it in the middle of the pack of primary prizes. But the state&#8217;s stature in Republican politics and its position on the calendar &#8211; no other state votes until April 19 &#8211; have elevated its importance.</p>
<p>Though the state has voted for Democrats in the past several presidential elections, it boasts prominent national party leaders including Mr Walker and House Speaker Paul Ryan.</p>
<p>Anti-Trump groups say they have benefited from the primary calendar, as rival campaigns have been able to focus narrowly on Wisconsin for nearly two weeks.</p>
<p>Planned Parenthood and Priorities USA, two groups working to elect Democrat Hillary Clinton, have teamed up for their first anti-Trump advertisement of the election year, a 30-second spot playing on websites that features his abortion comment.</p>
<p>&#8220;When it comes to women, the Republican frontrunner is demeaning, insulting and dangerous,&#8221; the ad reads.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton herself said: &#8220;Donald Trump is showing us exactly who he is and we should believe him. But let&#8217;s remember this, all the Republican candidates want to make abortion illegal.&#8221;</p>
<p>While Wisconsin may provide a much-needed boost for Trump opponents, the real estate mogul will soon find himself back in friendly territory.</p>
<p>The next contest awaiting Republicans comes on April 19 in New York, Mr Trump&#8217;s home state and one of the biggest delegate prizes up for grabs.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton, a former New York senator, holds a formidable lead among delegates but opponent Bernie Sanders hopes a series of recent victories in the West might turn into a springboard for a win in Wisconsin.</p>
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