A lot has gone on in the past 48 hours — after Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped out of the presidential race, Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, but not before he repeated a conspiracy theory about Cruz's father being with Lee Harvey Oswald before JFK's assassination and Cruz was heckled by a middle schooler.
On Wednesday, Seth Meyers took a closer look at all of these events, and how Trump became the last candidate standing. Republicans, he said, should really think about how a "race baiting, xenophobic, serial liar" like Trump became the presumptive candidate. "It's not a fluke," Meyers said. "The Republican Party is the party of Donald Trump and has been for years." With that, he introduced a clip from all the way back in 2009, when the birther movement, which starred Trump, was going strong. Watch the video below to hear more from Meyers on how Republicans are falling in line behind Trump, including those who previously said they'd never hop aboard the Trump Train. Catherine Garcia
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