Without any further chances of forcing a contested convention, Cruz suspended his campaign and Trump was declared the presumptive Republican nominee by Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on May 3. However, Trump scored landslide victories in New York and five northeastern states in April, before taking every delegate in the Indiana primary of May 3 with yet another majority of even that state's popular vote. Cruz won four Western contests and won in Wisconsin, keeping a reasonable path to denying Trump the nomination on first ballot with 1,237 delegates. From March 16, 2016, to May 3, 2016, only three candidates remained in the race: Trump, Cruz, and Ohio Governor John Kasich. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas won the Iowa caucuses, and Trump won the New Hampshire primary and the South Carolina primary. Prior to the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, this was the largest presidential primary field for any political party in American history. Businessman and reality television star Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for president of the United States.Ī total of 17 major candidates entered the race. These elections selected the 2,472 delegates that were sent to the Republican National Convention. territories between February 1 and June 7, 2016.

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