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After Tuesday's primary sweep in Maryland, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, Donald Trump announced that he considers himself the presumptive nominee. | |
Trump won every single county in every state on Tuesday, meaning he has now passed Mitt Romney's popular vote total and is now on a path that can see him gain more Republican votes than any presidential candidate in modern history. | |
Politico writes that Trump's surge to more than 10 million votes, according to totals that include Tuesday's preliminary results across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states. | |
Now that's already 250,000 more than Romney earned in the entire 2012 primary season. | |
Now the modern record-holding candidate is George W. Bush with 10.8 million votes in 2000, and Donald Trump is now positioned to easily pass that vote total. | |
Just more proof that 2016 is really the year of the insurgent candidate. |