May 03, 2016 06:31 PM UTC

Ted Cruz Exits Presidential Race After Indiana Defeat

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• by: Colorado Pols

The fat lady appears to have sung in the Republican presidential race. Politico:

Ted Cruz is quitting the presidential race, according to campaign manager Jeff Roe, ending one of the best-organized campaigns of 2016 after a series of stinging defeats left Donald Trump as the only candidate capable of clinching the nomination outright.

Cruz had appeared likely to go all the way to the Republican convention, but a string of massive losses in the Northeast, and his subsequent defeat in Indiana, appear to have convinced him there’s no way forward.

Well folks, that day every downticket Republican has dreaded, in Colorado from Rep. Mike Coffman and the Senate clown car on down, is finally upon us. Now the hardest question in American politics today–whether Republicans will support the most divisive major party nominee in half a century as their standard bearer in the 2016 general election–must be answered.

And the craziest election season of our lives, at least so far, is about to begin anew.