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I consider myself the presumptive nominee absolutely.

Hillary Clinton more or less secured the Democratic nomination.

With your help, we're going to come back to Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention and Ted Cruz picked a running mate.

We must take our country back.

Welcome to the FT's U.S. election countdown podcast. I'm Dimitri Sevestopulo.

And I'm Courtney Weaver.

From now until Election Day November, we'll be bringing you a weekly podcast from Washington on the campaign trail right here on the

FT politics channel. We hope to give you some insight into the candidates and

their campaigns and to explain some of the wackier things that are happening in

what is one of the most interesting elections in years.

So to kick off this week we're coming to you from Washington DC where we're just

wrapping up a big week. Five victories for Donald Trump on the Republican side, four for Hillary Clinton on the Democratic.

Trump now says he's the presumptive nominee. Is he, Dimitri? Well, I think he's still not technically

the presumptive nominee because he still needs to get 1237

delegates, which is what you need to win the first ballot at the convention in Cleveland when

the Republican Party picks its nominee, but he's had a really good two weeks.

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