Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

Our top story this week is the effective end of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

With Donald Trump's big win in Indiana, followed by Ted Cruz and then

John Kasich suspending their campaigns, Trump becomes the last man standing and his party's

presumptive nominee. Now Trump will need to turn his attention to securing the endorsements and

getting the financial backing he'll need to run a strong campaign against Hillary Clinton this

fall. Now, it's still very

early days, but how would you say that's going for him so far, Jay? Well, I guess, as you'd expect,

not, not, well, you know, that's a, that's a tough one. On the one hand, better than expected,

I guess I suppose where you start with your expectations.

He is going to be meeting with Paul Ryan coming up next week.

And he's had, there's been some conciliatory statements from folks like Raines Previs and other people, Mitch McConnell, indicating that

we ought to come together and so forth. On the other hand, there's also been sort of a strengthening

of the Never Trump coalition with the Bush family family officially saying that they are not supporting,

not coming to the convention, and so forth.

So it's just such a bizarre situation.

And I think this is something that is really, it's bigger than anything that we've really seen in our lifetime.

I shouldn't say that in terms of party politics.

I mean, Berlin Wall coming down was pretty big and all that.

But in terms of internal politics and our two-party system, this is probably the biggest event

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