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Ted Cruz ends campaign for president leaving way clear for Trump – Indiana primary live Cruz ends campaign, leaving Trump as presumptive GOP nominee – Indiana primary live
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Trump to address supporters Trump calls Cruz 'one hell of a competitor'
We’re expecting to hear from the presumptive nominee shortly. Live video feed will come online here: Trump:
1.44am BST I’ve competed all my life... All my life I’ve been in competitions, different competitions... and I have to tell you that I have met some of the most incredible competitors right here in the Republican party...
01:44 Ted Cruz, I don’t know if he likes me or doesn’t like me. But he is one hell of a competitor. He is a tough, smart, guy. And he has got an amazing future. I want to congratulate Ted. I know how tough it is. It’s tough... I understand how Ted feels and Heidi, and their whole beautiful family. I want to just say though, one tough competitor.
Trump party erupts in cheers 2.22am BST
The Guardian’s Ed Pilkington is at Trump Tower: 02:22
Corey Lewandowski, Trump campaign manager, listening VERY intently to the Ted Cruz speech at Trump Tower Trump: “Hillary Clinton, she will not be a great president, she will not be a good president. She will be a poor president. She does not understand trade. Her husband signed, perhaps, in the history of the world, the single worst trade deal ever done. It’s called Nafta.”
Big cheer erupts in Trump Tower as Ted Cruz announces the suspension of his campaign. “I’ve witnessed what it’s done really firsthand, and it has been indeed carnage.”
Trump Tower prepares to welcome the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican party. The moment soooo many said could never happen “We’re going to bring back our jobs and we’re going to keep our jobs. We’re not going to let companies leave.”
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Cruz winds to a close: Trump is mellow in victory, speaking in even tones, conversationally, just riffing.
In this fight for the long-term future of America, there is no substitute for victory. There is no substitute for the America that each of us loves with all of our heart… “We’re going to Nebraska where I just hear we’re doing really wonderfully... and West Virginia. We’re going to get those miners back to work.”
Thank you to each of you, and god bless you. Now he hits Clinton, who had talked about closing mines but then apologized in West Virginia. for saying that.
Cruz is done. “Let me tell you,” Trump says, “the miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia are going to start to work again. You’re going to be proud again to be miners.”
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Trump says when he got back to New York tonight and started watching the networks, he realized he could win all 57 delegates in Indiana. “I must say, in staying in various places in Indiana, I turned on the television and all I saw was negative ads.”
“It was the same as Florida. 60,000 negative ads, most of which are absolutely false and disgusting. ... And the people are so smart, they don’t buy it, they get it.”
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Trump: 'it's a beautiful thing to behold'
Trump thanks his wife, kids, late parents and brother.
He sounds pleased.
“It’s been some unbelievable day, evening and year...I’ve never been through anything like this... it’s a beautiful thing to behold and we’re going to make America great again.”
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Trump takes microphone
Here’s that video stream again:
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Priebus: Trump 'presumptive nominee'
The chairman of the Republican national committee says that Trump will nab the nomination and calls for party unity (if he botches the spelling a bit):
.@realDonaldTrump will be presumtive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton #NeverClinton
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Cruz: path to victory 'has been foreclosed' Christopher R Barron
Cruz thanks his mom and dad, and then “Carly Fiorina, who has been an incredible, phenomenal running mate” – for six days now. For Ted Cruz, the End is Now. The senator said he expected to win in Indiana. Just the other day, he told voters: “it gives me great comfort that this primary is going to be decided by the Midwestern common sense of the Hoosier State.”
Cruz: Cruz was right, Indiana has decided the Republican primary. Unfortunately for Cruz the state has decided Donald Trump is the nominee.
What you have done, the movement that you have started is extraordinary. After being beaten handily by Trump - all but guaranteeing Trump will now secure the 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the nomination on the first ballot - Ted Cruz said he is ending his campaign for president.
From the beginning, I’ve said that I would continue on … In his concession speech, Cruz, perhaps with an eye to 2020, sounded more like a man on the cusp of accepting his party’s nomination than one who was announcing the end of his campaign.
Tonight, I’m sorry to say, it appears that path has been foreclosed. After lengthy speech outlining his vision for the country, Cruz declared, “with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the future, we are suspending our campaign for president”. Cruz’s declaration is an admission that he no longer had a path to victory in his fight against Trump.
“No!” his supporters shout. Interestingly, missing from Cruz’s extended remarks was any reference to the now presumptive nominee of the Republican Party: Donald Trump. It is clear that Cruz has ended his fight for the nomination. But don’t think he has ended his fight with the billionaire businessman.
Cruz:
We gave it everything we’ve got, but the voters chose another path …
With a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign.
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As news of his campaign suspension breaks, Cruz continues to speak – he has not actually said it yet. Sanders with edge on Clinton
Here it comes: While we wait for Trump – what’s happening on the Democratic side? With 60.8% reporting, Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton 53.1%–46.9%. Precincts late to report include some in northwestern Lake County, which is favorable to Clinton – but maybe not favorable enough.
Thanks to each of you. Incredible patriots who have fought so hard to save our nation. About a fifth of the vote from Lake County (Gary) is in... Clinton up only 10 there. Probably game over...
I am so grateful to you. To my amazing wife Heidi. To our precious girls... Our comprehensive results map is here:
Related: Indiana primary results: track the votes, county by county
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Ben Jacobs And to think, it all began with the simple yet powerful belief that the first black president is a Kenyan imposter.
Ted Cruz suspended his campaign on Tuesday after a crushing defeat in Indiana’s primary, reports Ben Jacobs: As soon as Ted Cruz was done speaking, a handful of longtime Trump staffers embraced one another in a group hug. This changes everything.
The Texas senator, who rose to fame with his quixotic 17-day attempt to shut down the government, was the last remaining competitor to Donald Trump with a clear shot at the nomination. However, after staking his campaign on a win in Indiana, Cruz suffered an overwhelming loss in the Hoosier State. Ted Cruz ends campaign by accidentally hitting, elbowing his wife in the face pic.twitter.com/epO1tzKgTT
Cruz leaves the race having won 565 delegates and 11 states, including the first in the nation Iowa caucuses. Despite successfully building a strong base among evangelicals and social conservatives, he was unable to expand his following and to pivot to the unpredictable Trump who repeatedly bashed him as “lyin’ Ted.”
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Cruz suspends campaign
Ted Cruz is suspending his presidential campaign, the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs has confirmed.
It appears those two Trump tweets from about 90 minutes ago really hit the mark. Happy!
Now John Kasich is 4th place in a 2-man race.
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Cruz is speaking in the broadest possible terms about the challenges facing Republicans, future generations, the “tyranny of political correctness,” founding values – and all the kinds of things you might say if you were announcing the suspension of your presidential campaign.
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Guardian Washington bureau chief Dan Roberts:
this is sounding less like a 2016 concession speech from Cruz and more like a 2020 declaration speech
Kasich due to speak to reporters in DC tomorrow morning. What does he say now about the states where he asked his supporters to back Cruz?
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Cruz is talking about how far he’s come, how he’s lived the American dream, how his father was a “teenage immigrant washing dishes.”
“Only in America,” Cruz says.
Which is not the same as, “onward to West Virginia.”
Cruz says people have been talking about a contested convention, and the last one 40 years ago. At the time, he says, Ronald Reagan “spoke of the next 100 years,” looking to the distant not the near horizon.
“Ronald Reagan spoke with a purpose .. that must unite and drive our party now.”
“Americans are deeply frustrated and desperately want to change the path that we’re on,” Cruz says.