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Just as most people were preparing for a contested Republican convention,

Donald Trump won a landslide victory in Indiana that knocked his rivals Ted Cruz and

John Kasek out of the race and made him the grand old party's presumptive presidential

nominee.

We're going to start winning again and we're going to win big league.

So after 14 months on the campaign trail, we can now say with almost certainly that the general

election in November will pit Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.

Let's have a great election that shapes the future we want.

Welcome to the F.T.'s U.S. election countdown podcast.

I'm Dimitri Sevestopulo in Washington, fresh off the plane from Indiana, and joining me from West Virginia is Courtney Weaver.

Hi Dimitri. Hey Courtney, how are you?

Good. I'm in a Wendy's parking lot right now just off a Bernie Sanders rally and about to go to a Donald Trump rally.

Some people get all the good gigs.

So it's been quite the week since we last spoke. You know we have basically we have now have both sides wrapping up the nominations much quicker than we both expected.

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