Donald Trump won the Indiana primary in dominating fashion on Tuesday, ending Ted Cruz’s campaign and leaving the businessman as the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee.
Cruz’s decision to suspend his campaign leaves no doubt about who will be the GOP’s nominee.
It will be Trump, the celebrity businessman who was mocked as unserious when he entered the campaign and whose demise was repeatedly predicted by the political press.
On the Democratic side, Senator Bernie Sanders mounted a come-from-behind victory in Indiana’s Democratic primary, denying the former secretary of state a feather in her cap as she seeks their party’s presidential nomination.
Clinton remained well ahead in the delegate battle for the nomination.
The victory in indiana guarantees Trump at least 30 of Indiana’s 57 delegates, pushing him over 1,000 as he approaches the 1,237 he needs to clinch the nomination. He’s also likely to win the remaining 27 delegates given to the winner of each of Indiana’s nine congressional districts.
That would leave him needing fewer than 200 delegates to get to 1,237, something that is no longer in any doubt. 
With his family surrounding him on stage, Cruz said he would end his campaign but vowed that the conservative movement he leads would go on.
“From the beginning, I’ve said that I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory,” Cruz said to audible wails from some of his supporters.
“Tonight, I’m sorry to say it appears that that path has been foreclosed,” he concluded.  
“We gave it everything we got, but the voters chose another path. And so with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign.”
Cruz offered no congratulations to Trump in his remarks, and did not mention the front-runner by name at all.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich campaign pledged earlier Tuesday night that it would continue in the race.
Trump is unlikely to formally clinch the nomination until June 7, when California and five other states vote, but he’s considered a lock to win all 51 of New Jersey’s delegates that day, as well as a large share of California’s 172 delegates.
Trump also is a huge favorite to win West Virginia’s primary on the same night.
There have been signs in the past two weeks of establishment Republicans warming to Trump as his nomination becomes more of a certainty.

Source: Agencies, 4 May 2016