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Can a single state make any real difference in a chaotic and unpredictable presidential primary season? Tuesday night’s dual Wisconsin primaries suggest so. The result was a clarifying glimpse into where Trumpism falters, where Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont can succeed, and whether each party’s establishment has the power to steer its own nomination. ... After Mr. Trump’s clumsy expressions of solidarity with opponents of abortion — suggesting at one point that there should be “some form of punishment” for women who have abortions — he won just a third of self-identified evangelical Christians. (Confessore, 4/6)

Ted Cruz rolled to a landslide victory Tuesday in Wisconsin’s hotly contested Republican presidential primary, capitalizing on a difficult stretch for Donald Trump to cut into the front-runner’s overall delegate lead and deliver a psychological blow to the billionaire mogul. ... In the closing days of the Wisconsin race, Trump burrowed in to try to close a polling deficit with Cruz. ... Trump also deployed his wife, Melania, to make a rare campaign appearance Monday night in Milwaukee — a move seemingly orchestrated to soften his image with women after a series of misstatements on abortion policy. But it was not enough. (Sullivan and Rucker, 4/5)

A week after Donald Trump said women who have illegal abortions should “face some sort of punishment,” the Republican presidential candidate tried to redeem himself on Tuesday by insisting that women should still vote for him because he will protect them from terrorists. (Bassett, 4/5)