We’re going to wrap up our live coverage of the Indiana primaries shortly. Here’s what happened:
- Donald Trump emerged as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee with a resounding victory in Indiana, as Ted Cruz suspended his presidential campaign.
- Bernie Sanders scored an upset victory over Hillary Clinton, though the two split the delegate pile. Sanders vowed the nominating race was not over.
- Cruz did not mention Trump as he mothballed his campaign but called for the Republican party to look to the far horizon (his 2020 bid?).
- “I’m sorry to say, it appears that path [to victory] has been foreclosed,” Cruz said. “We gave it everything we’ve got.”
- Trump praised Cruz as “one hell of a competitor” and “a tough, smart guy”. It was a change in tone from the morning, when he had suggested Cruz’s father had had a hand in the JFK assassination and Cruz had brought up Trump’s “battles with venereal disease”.
- Republican party chair Reince Priebus called Trump the “presumptive nominee”. Trump said: “We want to bring unity to the Republican party.”
- Many Republicans resisted that call, vowing on social media to support Clinton or, in any case, not to support Trump.
- Clinton invited supporters to “chip in now if you agree we can’t let [Trump] become president”.
- John Kasich’s campaign said he was staying in: “Tonight’s results are not going to alter Governor Kasich’s campaign plans.”
- Cruz did not depart the national stage gracefully, exactly, elbowing his wife in the face on the way:
Ted Cruz ends campaign by accidentally hitting, elbowing his wife in the face pic.twitter.com/epO1tzKgTT
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) May 4, 2016
And some covers of tomorrow’s papers have already popped up:
