US presidential primaries: Trump declared presumptive nominee; Ted Cruz drops out
Republican party chief Reince Priebus on Tuesday declared that Donald Trump will be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race. "Donald Trump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton," Priebus said on social networking site Twitter. Trump crushed his Republican rivals in Indiana, US networks projected, bringing him dramatically closer to outright victory in his party's presidential nomination race and dashing the hopes of a movement bent on stopping him. "Thank you Indiana!" Trump tweeted as the race was called in his favour yesterday. Based on 13% of precincts reporting, the billionaire frontrunner took 53.8% of the vote, streets ahead of his nearest rival Ted Cruz on 33.9% and John Kasich on 9.4%. The Democratic race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was still too early to call in the Midwestern state, but early voting results sh...