Cruz beats Trump by wide margin

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz grabbed the lead in Idaho’s GOP primary shortly after polls closed Tuesday evening and held on to it, beating out Donald Trump by a wide margin.

Idaho is the seventh state won by Cruz in the 2016 race for the White House.

Idaho’s GOP uses a hybrid proportional system to divide up the state’s 32 delegates. Candidates must have at least 20 percent of the vote to get any delegates, and any candidate that gets more than 50 percent is automatically awarded all 32.

With 938 of 956 precincts reporting, Cruz had about 45 percent of the vote and Trump had about 28 percent. Marco Rubio was falling below the 20 percent threshold, with about 16 percent.