Quick Take: Trump And Sanders Win Indiana; Cruz Drops Out

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🗓️ 4 May 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Following a big loss in Indiana to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz announced he would suspend his presidential campaign. This episode, what's next in the race — and the latest delegate math for the Democrats following a win for Bernie Sanders in Indiana, with campaign reporter Scott Detrow, political editor Domenico Montanaro, and campaign reporter Asma Khalid. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here with a quick take on last night's primary
0:07.7	in Indiana.
0:09.5	Usually at this point in the intro, we play audio from the speeches by the winning
0:13.0	candidates, but last night it was a losing candidate who made the biggest news.
0:18.3	From the beginning, I've said that I would continue on as long as there was a viable path
0:24.6	to victory.
0:27.2	I'm sorry to say, it appears that path has been foreclosed.
0:39.4	So those are screams of no from crew supporters in Indianapolis as he announced that he's
0:44.4	suspending his campaign.
0:46.6	A lot to talk about will get into a little bit of it here, but we'll also talk about Bernie
0:51.1	Sanders who won Indiana on the Democratic side.
0:54.1	I'm Scott Detro campaign reporter.
0:55.6	I'm Domenico Montenarro political editor and I must m'hull it.
0:58.5	I covered demographics in the campaign.
1:00.9	So what happened now on the Republican side?
1:03.3	Is it over?
1:04.3	Essentially, yes.
1:05.3	I mean, Ted Cruz has now cleared the way for Donald Trump.
1:09.3	He's the likely nominee of the Republican Party, barring something really extreme happening
1:14.2	at this point.
1:15.2	Donald Trump tonight goes over a thousand delegates.
1:18.2	He had a big win in Indiana.
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