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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Wed May 4, 2016, 04:48 PM May 2016

Trump’s former rivals split on his emergence as likely GOP presidential nominee

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-former-rivals-split-on-his-emergence-as-040141384.html

Donald Trump’s former presidential primary rivals reacted in very different ways after he cemented his status as the likely Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday night.

Trump emerged as the party’s probable standard bearer after a win in the Indiana primary that boosted his delegate total and led his final strong opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to suspend his campaign.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who had run against Trump earlier in the year, blasted him on Twitter and predicted Trump’s victory would get the party “destroyed” in the general election.

“And we will deserve it,” Graham wrote.

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