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Reince Priebus: Trump's win ‘probably good for our party’ Reince Priebus: Trump's win ‘probably good for our party’

Looking back to when the Republican presidential primary kicked off in earnest last year, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that he never expected Donald Trump to become the presumptive nominee but suggested that the billionaire businessman’s success is probably good for the party.

“You know what, I think something different and something new is probably good for our party,” Priebus said Wednesday on CNN, a day after he tweeted that Trump will be the presumptive nominee and called for unity against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. “Look, I don’t think anyone predicted what happened. So, look, we’re here. We’re going to get behind the presumptive nominee.”

Trump’s decisive victory in Indiana on Tuesday effectively ended Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign, knocking out the candidate best positioned to stop him from claiming the nomination at a contested convention if he fell short of accruing a majority of delegates before July.

Cruz’s decision to bow out of the race was “very gracious,” Priebus said. “I was surprised, and it’s a hard thing to do. I mean, he ran a very, very serious operation. Just an incredible ground game. His delegate operation was unbelievable, and I was surprised. But now, you know, you’d have to say that it’s pretty obvious that Donald Trump is going to get to 1,237. But he’s got to do it, though.”