Donald Trump Presumptive Republican Party Nominee
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Donald Trump started as a long-shot candidate of the Republican party, but with a win last night in Indiana is now the party’s presumptive nominee for president. With Ted Cruz dropping out of the race last night and John Kasich calling it quits this morning, Trump celebrates his seventh straight state-wide victory.
Trump has won 1,047 delegates of the 1,237 needed to clinch the nomination. Cruz dropped out of the race with 565, and Kasich 153.
