And then there have been two. Ted Cruz declared on weekday, May 3, that he was ending his presidential campaign after losing to Donald Trump in the IN primary.
The Texas senator's announcement leaves competition Trump, 69, and John Kasich as the remaining Republican candidates for president.
CNN reports that with 17 % of the vote in, Trump was the projected winner in Indiana with fifty three.7 % of the vote to Cruz's thirty five %, while Kasich was at eight.6 percent.
"With a heavy heart however with limitless optimism for the long way forward for our nation, we ar suspending our campaign. But hear ME currently, I am not suspending our fight for liberty," Cruz, 45, told supporters in Indianapolis on weekday night with his woman, Heidi, by his side.
In appearance on weekday morning in IN, Cruz had made a final attractiveness for voters to support him, calling Trump a "pathological liar" and "utterly immoral."
With the former Apprentice star's win in Indiana, the real estate mogul is within two hundred delegates of the amount he must clinch the Republican nomination.
Taking the stage at his headquarters in New York town on weekday night, Trump described Cruz as "one hell of a competition."
On the Democratic side, Vermont legislator Bernie Sanders was expected to be the winner in IN, edging out former Secretary of State Sir Edmund Percival Hillary Clinton.
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