Today’s biggest stories:
- A massive, climate change-linked fire in northern Canada has displaced 80,000 people.
- John Kasich dropped out of the presidential race. Since Ted Cruz dropped out last night after Donald Trump’s big win in Indiana, Trump is almost certainly going to be the Republican nominee.
- An exchange between Bill O’Reilly and Charles Krauthammer on Fox News illustrated the kind of reasoning many Republicans are going to use to rationalize voting for Trump; a significant number of prominent conservatives, however, are still saying they will not do so.
- Trump used his Indiana victory speech to poke Hillary Clinton on the one subject that she might be most vulnerable on: trade.
- And he defended his March abortion-punishment gaffe on MSNBC with one of the most incoherent statements in world history.
- All things considered, Slate campaign blogger Josh Voorhees believes it’s still Hillary Clinton’s race to lose. (Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.)
Have a good night out there.
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