It's Donald Trump's GOP After Ted Cruz Drops Out.
INDIANAPOLIS — In a result that once seemed unthinkable to many Republicans, Donald Trump became the likely GOP nominee on Tuesday as top rival Senator Ted Cruz withdrew from the race.
"We are going to win again and we are going to win again bigly," a confident Trump declared from Trump Tower in New York.
Trump cut a swath through a 17-person GOP field as opponents lambasted him for making controversial statements about Muslims, Mexicans and African-Americans, appearing to incite violence against protesters, and leveling misogynist attacks against his female critics.
He will now represent the party of Abraham Lincoln in the general election despite little connection to any leg of the party's traditional trio of social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and national security conservatives. Implausibly, he will now lead all three groups against Hillary Clinton.
Trump won by discovering a primal desire among GOP voters for a swaggering populist who would buck orthodoxy on trade, protect entitlements, build a border wall, deport all undocumented immigrants, and implement an "America First" foreign policy that demanded allies pay for U.S. protection or go it alone.
Millions of supporters, distrustful of their party's leaders, rallied behind him as a unique figure whose personal fortune enabled him to spurn donors and say what he wanted with impunity.
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