Many observers credited Ted Cruz's primary victory in Wisconsin April 5 largely to the harangues of the state's influential cadre of talk radio hosts.
The state's six biggest talkers fiercely resisted the candidacy of Donald Trump, which produced a few testy interviews with the business mogul. Several of these hosts wield significant clout with Wisconsin's conservatives, and their stature and platform provided the #NeverTrump movement with a powerful megaphone.
Yet with Trump securing a big victory last week in New York and his opponents grasping for ways to block him from getting to 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination in the remaining primaries, the question of talk radio's role looms largem writes Brian Rosenwald in an opinion piece for CNN.
Wisconsin aside, is Cruz really the darling of talk radio and will the medium's advocacy prevent Trump from securing the Republican nomination?
In actuality, the campaign has splintered conservatives and talk radio bears the scars of these fissures as would any corner bar in a conservative neighborhood and many conservative households. The unity of Wisconsin talk radio cloaked these divisions.
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