Indiana was supposed to be the state that could potentially derail Donald Trump’s insurgent bid for the Republican presidential nomination. But on Monday afternoon, the New York real estate mogul bounded on stage at a concert hall here in the Indianapolis suburbs, looking like a man on the brink of yet another major victory.
Speaking to a capacity crowd of nearly 1,800 people, Trump, with his characteristic bravado, touted his six straight primary wins — and predicted he would easily claim yet another, pointing to polls that show him with a wide lead in Indiana heading into Tuesday’s vote. He unabashedly bragged to voters about how a guy like him — someone, he said, who had been in politics for under a year — had easily vanquished some of the Republican Party’s best and brightest.
“Boom, boom, boom — we’re knocking them out like corn flakes,” Trump declared.
And he was about to do it again, Trump confidently predicted, suggesting if Texas Sen. Ted Cruz comes up short in Indiana, the race is effectively finished. “If we win in Indiana, it’s over,” the real estate mogul declared. “They’re gone,” he added, referring to Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, his final two rivals in the race.
While Indiana’s 57 delegates still won’t give Trump the 1,237 he needs to clinch the GOP nomination, the Republican frontrunner has already started to move on, looking toward November and his likely Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. In recent days, Trump has focused his off-the-cuff stump speech as much on Clinton as he has Cruz and Kasich, signaling a readiness to move past the primary.
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