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Tue Jun 7, 2016, 04:37 PM Jun 2016

AP announces presumptive nominee before all the primaries are completed...back in May

On Thursday, the AP announced that enough unbound delegates have said they were willing to support Trump to put the real estate mogul over the threshold to win the nomination.

Trump now has 1,239 delegates, the AP reports, and 1,237 are needed to win the Republican nod.


[that must have been Clinton's fault too]

http://bigstory.ap.org/6fb6b090e8734d8593c0dc65658a4afa
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/05/26/donald-trump-delegates-nomination/84968566/

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