Dear Commons Community,

Donald Trump won five primaries (Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Maryland) yesterday and Hillary Clinton won four.  These victories pretty much make Trump and Clinton the presumptive nominees for their respective parties. Clinton is surely the Democratic Party nominee and it would take a most egregious maneuver by the Republican National Committee to deny the nomination to Donald Trump at the GOP convention in July.  As commented in a New York Times article:

“The big night for Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton intensified the aura of inevitability around their nomination bids and created urgent new challenges for their rivals. More significant, it increased Mr. Trump’s chances of avoiding a fight on the floor of the Republican convention in July and of claiming the nomination on the delegates’ first ballot.”

Bring on the general election!

Tony