In Wiscosin primary, voters say Trump inspires most excitement – and most fear

WASHINGTON (AP)

Wisconsin GOP primary voters say a potential Donald Trump presidency inspires both more excitement— and more fear— than his remaining Republican rivals.

That’s according to early results of exit polls conducted today for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research.

About a quarter of the GOP primary voters say they’re excited about Trump, while less than 15 percent say that of either Ohio Gov. John Kasich or Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, exit polls show.

At the same time, nearly 4 in 10 say they’re scared about what Trump would do as president, while only about 1 in 10 say that about either Cruz or Kasich.

In the case of a brokered Republican convention, nearly 6 in 10 say the party should nominate the candidate with the most support in the primaries, which so far would be Trump. Four in 10 say the party should nominate the candidate the delegates think would make the best nominee.

On the Democratic side, voters are more excited about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders but view former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the better candidate to beat Trump.

Sanders offered few details on how he would break up big financial institutions during a recent interview with the New York Daily News.

The Vermont senator was pressed on how he would carry out his campaign pledge.

Sanders said some banks are too big and could be broken up either by “having legislation passed, or giving the authority to the secretary of treasury to determine, under Dodd-Frank, that these banks are a danger to the economy over the problem of too-big-to-fail.”

But Sanders did not elaborate on how this would work. When asked how breaking up banks would affect jobs and assets at financial institutions, Sanders said it “is their decision as to what they want to do and how they want to reconfigure themselves. That’s not my decision.”

On the issues, both Democrats and Republicans say the economy is weighing heavily on their minds as they head to the polls, but Republicans list terrorism higher on their priority lists than Democrats.

Both Republicans and Democrats say the economy is weighing heavily on their minds as they head to the polls Tuesday.

Three quarters of Democratic voters say they are worried about the direction of the U.S. economy, according to early exit polls. More than a third say the economy and jobs are the most important issues facing the country and 3 in 10 consider income inequality to be of paramount concern.

The Republicans who came out to vote are even more troubled by the direction of the economy, the early exit polls show. More than 9 in 10 said they are either very or somewhat worried.

Similar to the Democrats, about 30 percent of Republicans consider the economy and jobs the country’s top problem, and just about as many consider government spending the most important issue.