WASHINGTON (AP) — With five convincing victories in hand, Donald Trump strengthened his grip on the Republican primary race and pushed tantalizingly close to a general election showdown with Hillary Clinton. The Democratic front-runner is now 90 percent of the way to her party's nomination after four solid victories of her own Tuesday.
The Republican race now turns to Indiana, where next week's primary marks one of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's last chances to slow Trump and push the race toward a contested convention. While Trump does need to keep winning in order to stay on his narrow path to the GOP nomination, he declared himself the party's "presumptive nominee" after Tuesday's results rolled in.
Declaring the need for "transformational" action on climate change as a settled question, Virgin Islands' Attorney General Claude Earl Walker recently announced, "We cannot continue to rely on fossil fuel. Vice President Gore has made that clear." (Glad that's all settled!)
Walker was referring, of course, to the latest incarnation of regulation by litigation: An investigation into ExxonMobil (Exxon) and organizations deemed "climate change deniers" by nineteen Democratic and one Independent Attorneys General (including Walker and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey), which seeks to punish climate change wrong-think.
