The announcement means Donald Trump is the lone contestant remaining in the race for the Republican nomination and is now considered the presumptive nominee.
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Trump is so close to the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the GOP nomination on the first ballot at the convention that it seems inevitable. Marco Rubio of Florida, whom Trump targeted with personal attacks before the Florida primary, the real estate mogul said he has gotten along “very well” with the senator since he got out of the presidential race. “No matter what he said, no matter what the polls said in terms of electability, they weren’t listening to any of it”, said Campbell.
Sources with the governor’s team, after winning only the GOP primary in Kasich’s home state, told CNN that he had wanted to continue the campaign but overnight he changed his mind and chose to end his effort.
“I am confident that I can unite much of it, some of it I don’t want”, Mr Trump said on NBC’s Today show.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by his wife Melania and daughter Ivanka as he arrives for a primary night news conference Tuesday.
“I have great respect for the will of the people, and as I have always said, I will support the Republican nominee for president”, SC governor Nikki Haley said in a statement.
“Hillary is not going to do it like me”, he said.
Mr Trump holds a commanding lead and is closing in on the nomination.
“This is to me a classic case of a blustering, bullying guy who has knocked out of the way all the Republicans because they were just dumbfounded”, she said.
However, moments after Cruz’s concession speech, Dallas Rep. Jason Villalba posted on Twitter that Trump was a “horrible human being” and would be the “death of the Republican Party”.
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But with unfavourability ratings among the highest of any modern presidential candidate, and concern within his own party about his temperament, Trump swiftly sought to assuage concerns about how he would govern.
