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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2016 [[Indiana]] Republican presidential primary
| country = Indiana
| type = presidential
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 2012 Indiana Republican presidential primary
| previous_year = 2012
| next_election = 2020 Indiana Republican presidential primary
| next_year = 2020
| election_date = {{Start date|2016|05|03}}
| image_size = x160px
| image1 = Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore 10 (cropped).jpg
| candidate1 = '''[[Donald Trump]]'''
| color1 = 283681
| home_state1 = [[New York (state)|New York]]
| delegate_count1 = '''57'''
| popular_vote1 = '''591,514'''
| percentage1 = '''53.26%'''
| image2 = Ted Cruz by Gage Skidmore 10 (cropped).jpg
| candidate2 = [[Ted Cruz]]
| color2 = d4aa00
| home_state2 = [[Texas]]
| delegate_count2 = 0
| popular_vote2 = 406,783
| percentage2 = 36.63%
| image3 = John Kasich (24618295175) (cropped).jpg
| candidate3 = [[John Kasich]]
| color3 = 29ab87
| home_state3 = [[Ohio]]
| delegate_count3 = 0
| popular_vote3 = 84,111
| percentage3 = 7.57%
| map_image = Indiana Republican Presidential Primary Election Results by County, 2016.svg
| map_size = 255px
| map_caption = {{legend|#283681|Donald Trump}}
{{legend|#d4aa00|Ted Cruz}}
| outgoing_members = [[2016 Rhode Island Republican primary|RI]]
| elected_members = [[2016 Nebraska Republican primary|NE]]
| votes_for_election = 57 pledged delegates to the [[2016 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]]
}}
{{ElectionsIN}}

The '''2016 Indiana Republican presidential primary''' was held on May 3 in the U.S. state of [[Indiana]] as one of the [[2016 Republican Party presidential primaries|Republican Party's primaries]] ahead of the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]]. This was a winner-take-all election, so [[Donald Trump]], who came in first in the popular vote, won all the delegates.

The [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] held their own [[2016 Indiana Democratic presidential primary|Indiana primary]] on the same day, which was won by [[Bernie Sanders]]. Other primaries were not scheduled for that day.

Following Trump's win, both Cruz and Kasich suspended their campaigns and Trump was declared the presumptive GOP nominee.

==Primary==
===Pre-primary strategies===
By late April, Cruz and Kasich had both been eliminated from getting 1,237 delegates, but they still had a chance to accumulate enough delegates to force a contested convention in Cleveland. Realizing this, Cruz and Kasich attempted to focus their efforts in different states, with Cruz challenging Trump head-to-head in Indiana and Kasich challenging Trump head-to-head in Oregon and New Mexico. However, the alliance was tenuous at best, with Kasich telling voters in Indiana the next day to still vote for him and Cruz downplaying the alliance later in the week; it also met with disapproval from 58% of Indiana voters.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ian |last=Schwartz |url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/25/kasich_on_indiana_i_never_told_people_not_to_vote_for_me_they_ought_to_vote_for_me.html |title=Kasich on Indiana: 'I Never Told People Not To Vote For Me, They Ought To Vote For Me' | Video |publisher=RealClearPolitics |date=April 25, 2016 |access-date=May 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/john-kasich-ted-cruz-alliance/|title=Ted Cruz on John Kasich: 'There is no alliance' |first=Eugene |last=Scott|publisher=CNN|date=April 28, 2016|access-date=April 29, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Mack |first=Justin L. |url=http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/01/poll-reversal-fortune-donald-trump-tops-ted-cruz-indiana/83789056/ |title=Poll: Reversal of fortune, Donald Trump tops Ted Cruz in Indiana |publisher=Indystar.com |date=May 2, 2016 |access-date=May 4, 2016}}</ref>

===Final attempts to stop Trump===
Indiana was seen as the final state for the "[[Stop Trump movement|Stop Trump]]" movement. Indiana, whose delegates were awarded winner-take all statewide and by congressional district, was seen as essential to denying Trump the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ted Cruz and John Kasich team up in deal to stop Trump|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/25/ted-cruz-and-john-kasich-team-up-in-deal-to-stop-trump|date=April 24, 2016|access-date=April 24, 2016|work=The Guardian}}</ref> Following the Acela primaries, Cruz attempted to bolster his chances by announcing that, if nominated, he would name Fiorina as his running mate.<ref name=fiorinarm>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/04/27/475894723/in-unprecedented-move-cruz-will-name-fiorina-as-his-vice-presidential-pick|title=Ted Cruz Will Name Carly Fiorina As His Vice Presidential Pick|publisher=NPR}}</ref> Fiorina had served as a Cruz campaign surrogate since March after suspending her own presidential campaign in February and Cruz hoped that Fiorina could help his campaign in Indiana and her home state of California.<ref name="fiorinarm2">{{cite news|last1=Sullivan|first1=Sean|last2=Costa|first2=Robert|title=Cruz announces Carly Fiorina as his running mate|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cruz-says-he-will-make-a-major-announcement-at-afternoon-rally/2016/04/27/397bc1f0-0c18-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html|access-date=April 27, 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 27, 2016}}</ref> On April 29, 2016, Governor [[Mike Pence]] of Indiana, who eventually became Donald Trump's running mate, announced that he would vote for Cruz in the primary election.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bradner |first1=Eric |title=Mike Pence endorses Ted Cruz |url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/29/politics/mike-pence-to-endorse-ted-cruz-friday/index.html |access-date=3 March 2019 |work=CNN |date=29 April 2016}}</ref> However, Cruz's posturing and endorsements proved to be insufficient, as Trump handily won Indiana with 53% of the vote, despite being outspent by a margin of more than 4–1.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Collinson|first1=Stephen|title=CNN projects Donald Trump wins Indiana, on cusp of GOP nomination|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/indiana-primary-highlights/index.html |publisher=CNN|date=May 3, 2016 |access-date=May 3, 2016}}</ref> Cruz lost Indiana by a wide margin to Trump (53% to 37% with Kasich at 8%) and subsequently dropped out of the race.

==Trump emerges as Republican nominee==
Cruz lost Indiana by a wide margin to Trump (53% to 37% with Kasich at 8%) and subsequently dropped out of the race. As a result, [[Reince Priebus]], [[Republican National Committee]] chairman, tweeted that Trump was the presumptive nominee in the GOP. The next day, Kasich also suspended his campaign, leaving Trump as the only candidate in the race. Despite his endorsement of Cruz, Mike Pence went on to become Trump's running mate.

==Opinion polling==
{{see also|Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries}}

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
! List of polls
|-
| {{#section-h:Statewide opinion polling for the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries|[[Indiana]]}}
|}

==Results==
{{see also|Results of the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries}}

Trump won Indiana by a considerable margin statewide. He won nearly all regions of the state except for several counties in northeast Indiana containing the [[Fort Wayne]] and [[Elkhart, Indiana|Elkhart]] areas, which Cruz won.

{{2016INRep}}

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

{{2016 Republican Primaries}}

[[Category:2016 United States Republican presidential primaries by state|Indiana]]
[[Category:2016 Indiana elections|Republican primary]]
[[Category:Indiana Republican primaries|2016]]
[[Category:May 2016 events in the United States]]

2016 Indiana Republican presidential primary - Revision history

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