Donald Trump won the Indiana Republican presidential primary and Ted Cruz dropped out of the race. This tweet from the chair of the RNC pretty much seals the deal.
.@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) May 4, 2016
For anyone left wondering WTH happened to the Republican Party, President Obama’s former communications director tells the story.
We should have all seen this: the logical end for Republicans in the Obama era was to nominate the world’s most famous birther
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) May 4, 2016
Lawrence Brown managed to fit the historical significance into one tweet.
In America, there is ALWAYS a White backlash to Black progress.
Reconstruction-> lynchings.
Civil rights-> Southern Strategy.
Obama-> Trump.— Lawrence Brown (@BmoreDoc) May 4, 2016
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Republicans in Indiana sealed the deal for Trump.
Indiana is where the second, nativist Klan was most popular—and it’s going huge for Trump: https://t.co/SxAzfphuJv pic.twitter.com/uOA9hSbGLl
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) May 3, 2016
You will hear a lot of pontificating today about what happened in this Republican presidential primary. But that’s pretty much the whole story in a nutshell.