Donald Trump comfortably won the Republican primary in Indiana, marking the end of the challenge by Sen Ted Cruz and the #NeverTrump movement that had sought to deny the presidential nomination to the controversial billionaire.

• Live results coverage via The Atlantic here.
• Live coverage from Politico here.
• Live coverage from Slate here.

https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/727659245823496192

With Cruz’s withdrawal, Trump’s path to becoming his party’s nominee and a non-contested convention is now clear. Polls show him set to perform well in upcoming primaries in New Jersey and California. Matt Yglesias writes at Vox:

All this means he will probably secure a majority of delegates by early June when the last states have voted — and so he’ll win on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention.

But even more to the point, there is simply no sign that even if he does fall slightly short of an outright delegate majority, the party will try to meaningfully contest the convention. There are a handful of Republican Party leaders who are fundamentally opposed to Trump, but they are genuinely few and far between. The vast majority of GOP elected officials don’t think nominating Trump is a good idea, but they have no intention at this point of doing anything to stop it from happening.

https://twitter.com/petersuderman/status/727654167205007360

https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/727655529854738435

https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/727655594992209921

https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/727655298673065984

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/727665401027538945

No.

https://twitter.com/moorehn/status/727673276571471875

https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/727659202341130240

Not so fast, though…