With no opposition, Donald Trump wins West Virginia and Nebraska


Donald Trump is the projected winner of the West Virginia and Nebraska Republican primaries, The Associated Press, CNN, and NBC News report. Trump is running unopposed, now that Ted Cruz and John Kasich, his last two remaining rivals, are out of the race. In West Virginia, with 96 percent of precincts reporting, Trump has 77 percent of the vote, followed by Cruz with 9 percent and Kasich with 7 percent. In Nebraska, with 95 percent of precincts reporting, Trump has 61 percent of the vote, with Cruz and Kasich far behind with 19 percent and 11 percent of the vote, respectively.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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