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CNN exit polls showed Trump won big. He won with men by 23 percent, women and millennials by 4 percent, Gen-Xers and boomers by 6 and 18 points respectively, college graduates by 10 points, high school dropouts and low income voters by 16 points, high income voters by 13 points, Republicans by 10 points, Independents by 20 points, and Democrats by 32 percent.
The only groups that did not support the billionaire were postgraduates (47 percent to 38 percent) and very conservative (51 percent to 45 percent).
Indiana is the seventh straight contest where Trump has defied expectations and received a majority of Republican primary voters’ support.
His win forced out Sen. Ted Cruz. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is still in the race, but his campaign seems more like an episode of Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives than a bid for the presidency.
Those who maintain that they will never vote for Donald Trump are right-wing ideologues who are selling a brand of phony conservatism that Russell Kirk, Robert Nisbet, and Frank Meyer would reject.
They cannot accept that American voters have rejected their $75 million campaign against Trump and for the resurrection of Bushism.
Any Republican strategist, consultant, or pundit still waging war against a Trump candidacy is doing it for their own self interest. They are telling GOP voters in one breath that Trump is not conservative enough and in the next to surrender to Hillary Clinton and hope that voters will listen to them in 2020.