Trump has clinched Republican nomination

[trof]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Citing interviews with unbound delegates, the Associated Press is reporting that Donald Trump has clinched the Republican nomination for president. The AP report puts Trump's delegate count at 1,238, one above the 1,237 needed, with five state primaries to go in early June.

Read more: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ap-says-donald-trump-has-clinched-republican-nomination-2016-05-26?siteid=bnbh

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[valerief]

1. I can't see the GOP allowing this. The world is upside down. nt

[oberliner]

2. Who would've thunk it?

Remember when everyone thought the Republicans would have a brokered convention? And that every possible step will be taken to prevent him from getting the nomination?

This was just like a month or two ago.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Mitt has not spoken yet

Surely he will reverse this usurpation by Trumpler

[brooklynite]

4. No! No! No! No! No!

They're UNBOUND!!! They could CHANGE THEIR MINDS!!! You can't call him the nominee until ALL THE DELEGATES VOTE!!!

(or so I've been told)

[Hortensis]

7. So not the GOP's blackest day yet? Let's all hope

to see some vestige of honor and responsibility hidden in the ashes flare into flame.

[thesquanderer]

13. I expect similar reports of Hillary clinching when she passes the same threshold on June 7.

But to your implied point, yeah, there will be controversy about it. The difference there being that no one is running against Trump, so there's no one interested in disputing it.

[billhicks76]

20. She Cant

Super delegates don't vote until convention.

[Chicago1980]

25. She'll be called the presumptive nominee.

Super Delegates aren't going to be switching.

[billhicks76]

29. Liars Claim She Won or Will Win June 7

They are either ignorant or dishonest. Presumptive means nothing. Super delegates could switch if it looks like she could lose to Trump. That's the point of super delegates...to not select a loser. Hillary is dropping more each day.

[Javaman]

5. I predicted this back when if first announced he was running...

I wrote it back then that he would go all the way because of the gross stupidity of this nation.

this is one of the few times, I'm sorry to be right.

but at the same time, I'm not the least surprised.

[Hortensis]

8. This nation? Speak for yourself.

And, yes, there are some pathetic Trump suckers here, but to put it mildly, they are not us.

[Javaman]

9. yeah, I should have clarified...

but I think you know whom I'm referring to: the mouth breathing right wing.

and give it time, they will all fall in line behind him.

Because that's what they do.

[Hortensis]

14. Sorry, Java. I could have written the rest of this post

myself and actually have a few times, in those words. Pathetic. How on earth has our democracy stumbled on all these many decades?

[Javaman]

15. I like to think of our democracy as a dark room...

and we the people yelling at the congress people to find the light switch.

but instead of an actual on and off switch, it's a dimmer switch.

sometimes, it's bright, sometimes, it's dark, but most of the time, it's at a degree of dim.

[runaway hero]

17. Let's stop pretending the voters are innocent.

The USA deserves this. There are people that have been just like him in public life for about 15 years now, since the advent of reality TV, and we made them rich. This is end. Trump represent everything vile about the USA, but if there wern't so many like him on the TV, he alone would just be a problem.

[Javaman]

19. like the saying goes...

we don't get the government we want, we get the government we deserve.

[RiverNoord]

22. It's not just stupid people.

We have no monopoly on those - we all act stupidly from time to time, and it's part of being human.

Something like this requires the addition of other people willing to harness and build up the stupidity of others for their own gain, on a massive scale.

That's not exactly stupidity - it's pretty much the closest thing to real evil there is.

[Javaman]

23. "other people willing to harness and build up the stupidity"

so that's like weaponized stupidity. lol

[RiverNoord]

24. Yup.

A time honored and sacred tradition among human civilizations..

[turbinetree]

6. What do you call a republican------------draft dodging bankruptcy king on everything, and someone

won't release his tax returns, I still think he's in the Panama Papers --------somewhere

[allan01]

10. this

trumps new national anthem'
i will play this when he is disqualified from the preisdency and it takes us 20 years to recover .

why is the establisment so intent to shove these terrible canidates down our throats ? both lo in poll #

[Surya Gayatri]

11. The most ignominious moment in the history of the GOP. (in my lifetime)

What an alarming commentary on the State of the Nation--or at least 30-40% of it.

Gaaaaaaahhhh! Donald Dumbass Trump.

"Cry the Beloved Country"...

[sofa king]

12. Our future, through the past:

[arcane1]

26. That's giving Trump way too much credit. Hitler had actual thoughts and ideas.

Trump is all air and ego.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

16. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...

[asiliveandbreathe]

18. Anyone who supports this trump conman is just selling

their soul to the devil -

[RiverNoord]

21. Of course it was coming.

But, honestly, to me, it feels a little bit like the morning of 9/11. A lesser degree of the same sense of horror.

We're not in Kansas anymore.

[MFM008]

27. I Wish he would clinch

A live wire

50 thousand volts would be good...

JUST JOKING.....

[potone]

28. Everytime I think things can't get worse...

do I really need to finish that sentence? I thought that we couldn't sink lower than W. I guess we are lucky that it won't be Cruz.

Yes, as some of the posters below have remarked, our increasingly debased popular culture has contributed to this nightmare of a candidate, but so has the last thirty-six years of GOP propaganda and policies. That, my dear fellow Duers, is how we have come to this.

I fear for our future.