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Donald Trump Wins Nebraska and West Virginia; Sanders Bests Clinton in West Virginia

Donald Trump speaks in New York on May 3.

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Update, 9 p.m.: Donald Trump wins Nebraska

Update, 7:46 p.m.: Bernie Sanders wins West Virginia

Update, 7:45 p.m.: Donald Trump wins West Virginia

Original Post: The nominations of both parties are presumptive at this point, but the voting must go on! Voters in both parties went to the polls in West Virginia on Tuesday and the Republicans are also hitting the booths in Nebraska. The contests on the Republican side are contests in name only really, considering all of the candidates have dropped out of the race, except for real estate developer and author Donald J. Trump. The Republican contests are the first opportunity for actual Republican voters to weigh in following the last of the stragglers dropping out of the race. After recent hand-wringing by the Republican brass, the biggest drama will be whether voters lead the way and rally around the presumptive nominee or stay true to the Cruz/Fiorina ticket or, of course, the Kasich Express.

On the Democratic side, Clinton has firm delegate lead that, according to an ABC News tally, gives her 93.5 percent of the 2,383 delegates needed to lock up the nomination. Sanders has totaled about 61 percent so far. That means, including superdelegates, Clinton only needs to win 16 percent of the remaining delegates to secure victory; Bernie Sanders would need to win 97 percent. If you take superdelegates out of the picture, Clinton needs to win 34 percent here on in to Sanders’ 66 percent.

For a full rundown of the different storylines weaving their way through tonight’s contests, read Slate’s Jim Newell