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When Republican Presidential candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich suspended their campaigns after being badly beaten in Indiana, the last person standing for the Republicans was Donald J. Trump.

If you look at it closely, we really should applaud what Trump did. He whipped 16 of the best and brightest the GOP had to offer.

Think about that. Trump beat Republican royalty like Jeb Bush. He beat seasoned presidential candidates like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. He bested Scott Walker – the governor of Wisconsin. He beat the young gun Marco Rubio, and he kicked the rear of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and current Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.

That’s not bad for a few months' work. He brought the Republican Party down to their knees, and worst of all for the Republicans, Trump paid for it himself.

Even when 2012 Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney came out against Trump calling him, among other things, a misogynist, and saying he mocked a female reporter attributing her questions to her menstrual cycle, Trump continued to win and win.

On May 3, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus threw in the towel when he tweeted, “@realDonaldTrump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton.”