John Kasich speaking at a town hall in New Hampshire. Image: Gage Skidmore Wikimedia creative commons

As John Kasich drops out of the Republican race for the White House, Donald Trump becomes the party’s presumptive nominee.

A presumptive nominee is a candidate who has the assurance of becoming the nominee for their party but  is yet to be confirmed.

#UPDATE Kasich ends White House bid, Trump is presumptive nominee https://t.co/mc0MDuPHnr

— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 4, 2016

John Kasich won one state, Ohio which he is govener of, and was able to amass only 153 delegates which would not have been able to gain him the Republican nomination.

John Kasich was hoping for a brokered convention in which no one candidate had gained the amount of delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination.

The White House. Image: CC-BY-SA-3.0/Matt H. Wade at Wikipedia

Now all candidates except Donald Trump have suspended their campaigns there will not be a brokered convention and Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee.

Donald Trump’s poll numbers surged as he entered the race and he held a strong lead entering the primary season. After losing Iowa to Cruz, Trump won the next three February primaries. Image: Michael Vadon

In January MPs debated about allowing Donald Trump into the UK.

David Cameron has continued to refuse to apologise to Mr.Trump for comments about his immigration policy.

Mr.Cameron has however stated that respect should be given to anyone who fights in the primaries to become their parties nominee.

Cameron “respects” Trump — but refuses to apologize for calling his Muslim comments “stupid” https://t.co/wnODYywhu5 pic.twitter.com/iXZnrFr6gX

— POLITICO Europe (@POLITICOEurope) May 5, 2016