Subject: FW: BREAKING NEWS: Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race
From: "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 17:29:19 -0700

From: POLITICO [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 8:28 PM
To: Dillon, Lauren
Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race

Ted Cruz is quitting the presidential race, according to campaign manager Jeff Roe, ending one of the best-organized campaigns of 2016 after a series of stinging defeats left Donald Trump as the only candidate capable of clinching the nomination outright.

Cruz had appeared likely to go all the way to the Republican convention, but a string of massive losses in the Northeast, and his subsequent defeat in Indiana, appear to have convinced him there's no way forward.

John Kasich, however, pledged on Tuesday night to stay in the race until a candidate reaches 1,237 bound delegates.

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