Cruz supporter in tears |
That
would mark a stunning victory for a businessman few took seriously when he
launched his campaign last year.
Bernie
Sanders has defeated Hillary Clinton in Indiana 's
Democratic race.
He
trails Mrs Clinton in the all-important delegate count but after this victory
he said the contest was still alive.
"Clinton campaign thinks
this campaign is over. They're wrong," he said.
Mr
Cruz's advisers had targeted Indiana as the Texas senator's best
hope of halting Mr Trump's march to the nomination.
"We
gave it everything we've got, but the voters chose another path," he told
supporters in Indiana .
His
departure means Mr Trump is now the presumptive Republican nominee, with plenty
of state contests this month and next to reach the 1,237 delegates required to
win.
The
New York
businessman is the first nominee since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 to lack any
previous experience of elected office.
Ohio
Governor John Kasich has vowed to remain in the Republican race, but trails far
behind Mr Trump in terms of delegates.
Turn out
the lights, the party's over. Ted Cruz and the #NeverTrump movement threw
everything they had at Donald Trump in Indiana ,
and it wasn't enough. It wasn't even close to enough.
They
outspent him by more than a million dollars. Mr Cruz practically took up
residence in the state for the past two weeks. He named Carly Fiorina as his
running mate. Nothing worked.
If there
was a defining moment of the Indiana
campaign, it was Mr Cruz's fruitless attempt to reason with a group of
pro-Trump supporters on Sunday.
Every
argument he advanced was rebuffed. Every bit of evidence of Trump malfeasance was
denied. Mr Cruz was shouting in the wind.
In the
coming days there will be a great reckoning, as the party comes to terms with
the prospect of Mr Trump as their standard bearer in the autumn. Some will make
peace. Some will despair. Others will say "I'm with her" and
reluctantly move to Hillary Clinton's side.
It will be
an unprecedented spectacle in modern US political history.
Source: BBC
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