Patriots: For over 26 years, your generosity has made it possible to offer The Patriot Post without a subscription fee to military personnel, students, and those with limited means. Please support the 2024 Year-End Campaign today.

May 5, 2016

Indiana Results: Republicans Have A Nominee

In Indiana, Donald Trump continued smashing his opponents, taking 53% of the vote, while Texas Senator Ted Cruz received 37%. Ohio Governor John Kasich won just 8%. Within moments of the polls closing, the networks called the state for Trump, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted that Donald Trump was the presumptive nominee. Indiana’s results convinced Texas Senator Ted Cruz to suspend his campaign last night. And this morning, Ohio Governor John Kasich suspended his campaign too.

In Indiana, Donald Trump continued smashing his opponents, taking 53% of the vote, while Texas Senator Ted Cruz received 37%. Ohio Governor John Kasich won just 8%.

Within moments of the polls closing, the networks called the state for Trump, and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted that Donald Trump was the presumptive nominee.

Indiana’s results convinced Texas Senator Ted Cruz to suspend his campaign last night. And this morning, Ohio Governor John Kasich suspended his campaign too.

Indiana Results: Democrat Fight Goes On

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders scored a surprising upset win [Tuesday] night in Indiana’s Democrat primary. Prior to [Tuesday’s] vote, Clinton was leading in the polls by an average of seven points. But [Tuesday] night Sanders won 53% to 48%.

Speaking at his victory rally, Senator Sanders said, “I understand Secretary Clinton thinks this race is over. I’ve got some bad news for her.” He then vowed to fight on in West Virginia, Kentucky and other states and then take his fight to the convention floor.

Sanders’ victory, however, didn’t do much to change the dynamics of the Democrat contest. Clinton is far ahead of Sanders in the delegate count — 2,202 to 1,400.

Clinton has 92% of the delegates needed to win her party’s nomination. As one pundit said, she could lose every remaining contest by 20 points and still get the delegates needed to secure the nomination.

It is worth pointing out that the count among delegates actually won in the primaries is much closer — 1,682 for Clinton to 1,361 for Sanders. Hillary’s big lead comes from 520 so-called “superdelegates.”

Unless something happens to change their minds between now and the Democratic National Convention in July, Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee this November.

Holocaust Remembrance Day

[Yesterday was] Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. It is called “Yom Hashoah Ve Hagevurah” — Day of the Holocaust and the Heroism. It is a day of reflection on the unthinkable, remembering that Adolf Hitler and his allies murdered six million Jews, one-third of the world’s Jewish population.

After such horrors, it is hard to imagine that such evil could ever occur again. But today the lessons of the Holocaust are fading. Writing in the Boston Globe, columnist Jeff Jacoby notes this disturbing fact: “In 2013, a survey of more than 53,000 respondents in 101 countries found that only 54 percent of the world’s adults had even heard of the Holocaust — and of those, one-third believe it is either a myth or has been greatly exaggerated.”

Far worse, Iran, ISIS and other adherents of radical Islam are promising a second Holocaust — threatening to wipe Israel off the map. The ancient evil of anti-Semitism is growing. The political left in Europe is infected with Jew-hatred.

There is good news. Today millions of Christians are standing with the Jewish people. Together, we will defend Judeo-Christian civilization and fight persecution whatever its source. NEVER AGAIN!

National Day Of Prayer

[Today] is the 65th annual National Day of Prayer. This year’s theme is “Wake Up America,” based on the verse in Isaiah 58:1: “Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet.”

From the breakdown of the family to the state of race relations in America and the fight against radical Islam, there is certainly plenty to pray about.

Please join Carol and me in praying for our country and our values. There will be events taking place in Washington and across the country [today]. Click here to learn more.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.