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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22390, 9 April 1936, Page 11

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THE UNITED STATES PRIMARY ELECTIONS NOMINATION CAMPAIGNS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received April 8, 9.85 p.m.) •WASHINGTON. April 7 Political observers in Washington attach considerable significance to the primary elections held in Wisconsin to-day. Unofficial returns indicate thai;: Mr. W. E. Borah received a prefer- 1 ence vote for nomination ao ai! Republican candidate for the Piesidency. The majorities for the delegates pledged to Mr. Borah were not overwhelming, however, and according to some opinion in the capital they were not sufficient to counteract the rather severe defeat of his partisans m the recent primary elections in New York. The trend of the primaiy voting so far, according to observers, tends to widen the split in the Republican forcesj between the Conservative (eastern) and Progressive (western) wings of the Mr. A. M. Landon, Governor ofi Kansas, who in receiving considerable support from the Conservatives, appears' to be well ahead in the early campaign) for the Republican nomination. President Roosevelt, with only scattered opposition, won the entire pledged support of the Wisconsin Democrats, and it is all but a foregone conclusioaj that he will be nominated again on tha first ballot at the Democrat Convention.