Republican presidential candidate
Ted Cruz has decisively won the Wisconsin primary, complicating
front-runner Donald Trump's path to the nomination.
Mr Trump leads the Republican race, but there are concerns that he could fall short of the number of delegates needed to secure the party's nomination.
Mr Trump's rivals have pinned their hopes on a contested convention.
At a contested convention, party leaders, not voters, would choose the nominee.
"Tonight is a turning point, it is a rallying cry to the people of America," Mr Cruz told supporters in Milwaukee on Tuesday. "We are winning because we are uniting the Republican Party."
Mr Cruz is unlikely to earn enough delegates to win the outright nomination, but Republican Party leaders have rallied around the Texas senator in hopes of wounding Mr Trump.
Who knew it? Newton was right; there is such a thing as gravity after all.
I'm not much of a scientist, but I had, well, started to doubt him. I thought maybe he hadn't got it right with the whole thing about the apple falling. After nine months of the most improbable act of levitation ever seen outside of a circus or a weightlessness laboratory, the blond sorcerer has come down to earth.
No, he didn't reach terminal velocity. And as falls go, it wasn't that serious. He's got a few scrapes, and maybe that over-inflated ego has had some of the air knocked out. You could hear the hissing sound from miles away. But a fall it has been.
And that is remarkable and worthy of note. Because for nine months now it has seemed that Donald Trump could say and do whatever he liked without there being consequences.
But then he took on women. And so Wisconsin is lost. And Mr Trump has shown he is mortal.
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