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OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Mary Fallin, whose name has come up as a potential running mate for Donald Trump, strongly endorsed the New York billionaire Wednesday after months of staying neutral in the GOP presidential race.

Her announcement came after Trump emerged as the presumptive Republican nominee. His victory in the Indiana primary on Tuesday led U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich to drop out of the race.

Unlike Fallin, several Republican officials took the unusual step of criticizing their own party’s likely nominee, some saying they’d never vote for a man known for insulting other candidates, reporters, illegal immigrants, women and Muslims while calling for a huge wall to be built on the southern border at Mexico’s expense.