{"id":181622,"date":"2016-05-03T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/03\/buh-bye-teddie\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T02:31:00","slug":"buh-bye-teddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/03\/buh-bye-teddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Buh Bye Teddie\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/z5AMkM9.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/z5AMkM9.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a>The Results are in from the Hoosier state, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-sees-a-decisive-indiana-victory-at-hand-gears-up-to-take-on-clinton\/2016\/05\/02\/c02730ce-10b7-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html\">Bernie won, and Cruz got beat so badly that he dropped out of the race<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Businessman and reality-TV star Donald Trump became the Republican party\u2019s presumptive presidential nominee on Tuesday night, after Trump\u2019s closest rival \u2013 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) \u2013 withdrew from the race, following a crushing victory by Trump in the Indiana primary.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The GOP\u2019s chairman, Reince Priebus, called Trump the \u201cpresumtive [sic] GOP nominee\u201d in a Twitter message about 9 p.m., and added a plea that \u201cwe all need to unite and focus on defeating\u201d Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the Democratic race in Indiana, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) was projected as the winner, taking an upset victory over Clinton. That victory will not allow Sanders to make up much ground in the race for Democratic delegates, but it will ensure that their race continues on &#8212; creating a scenario few would have seen coming last summer, with Trump gaining a head start on the Democratic nominee.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/indiana-republican-democratic.html\">Sanders won by about 5 points, and Trump by about 17 points<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it a pretty good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Results are in from the Hoosier state, and Bernie won, and Cruz got beat so badly that he dropped out of the race: Businessman and reality-TV star Donald Trump became the Republican party\u2019s presumptive presidential nominee on Tuesday night, after Trump\u2019s closest rival \u2013 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) \u2013 withdrew from the race, following &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}