Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday suspended his presidential bid for the Republican nomination following a crushing defeat by Donald Trump in the Indiana primary.

Cruz told dismayed supporters the path to victory had been closed.

"I've said I would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory; tonight I'm sorry to say it appears that path has been foreclosed," Cruz told a somber crowd in Indianapolis.

Cruz campaigned aggressively in Indiana, but could not overcome Trump.

The billionaire businessman has stunned the Republican Party with his appeal to voters deeply frustrated with Washington and their own party's leaders.
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Donald Trump delivered a devastating blow to rival Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday, easily winning Indiana’s Republican Primary and moving him closer to clinching the GOP presidential nomination.

Fox News projects Trump overwhelmingly beat Cruz in the Hoosier state’s primary.

With 37 percent of precincts reporting, Trump has 53.5 percent of the vote. Tuesday’s victory significantly improves Trump’s chances of amassing the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination this summer in Cleveland.

On the Democratic side, the contest between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared ready to go down to the wire, with first returns hovering for each around the 50 percent mark.

With just nine states remaining in the nominating process, the stop-Trump wing of the Republican Party appears to be rapidly running out of options.

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