A confident Donald Trump declared himself the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday night, following his clean sweep in the five states where voters cast their ballots earlier in the day.
“I consider myself the presumptive nominee, absolutely,” Trump told reporters during a press conference at his gilded Manhattan skyscraper.
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“Sen. Cruz and Gov. Kasich should really get out of the race,” he said. “They have no path [forward] and honestly, I’m a unifier.”
“We will have people that are back in this party that you folks may not even believe,” Trump said, predicting that he will attract a surge of new voters to the GOP if he emerges as the nominee.
“We’re going to have such unity,” he doubled down.
Trump described Tuesday as his “biggest night so far” because the five states that voted showed “such diversity.”
The leading GOP candidate carried more than 60 percent of the vote in Delaware and finished over 50 percent in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maryland.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s over. When you crack 60 percent with three people — that’s very hard to do,” he said.
