IT'S OFFICIAL, GOP: DONALD TRUMP IS YOUR GUY

According to an Associated Press report, Donald Trump reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president Thursday, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and set the stage for a bitter fall campaign.

The Associated Press says Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate count by a small number of the party's unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the national convention in July.

It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination. Trump has reached 1,238.

With 303 delegates at stake in five state primaries on June 7, Trump is poised to add more to his total, which would avoid a contested convention in Cleveland.

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