Trump’s takeover of the GOP, one year later

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Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump winning the Indiana primary, knocking off the last of his competitors for the Republican nomination and setting himself on a path to the presidency of the United States.

“It has been some unbelievable day and evening and year — never been through anything like this,” Trump declared in his victory speech, calling it a “beautiful thing to behold.” Then-Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on Twitter that Trump would be the “presumptive nominee,” and called on the party to “unite and focus on defeating” Hillary Clinton.

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