Credit: Gage Skidmore

He was hopelessly outgunned from the start, posing as a “moderate Republican” (he isn’t; he’s as extreme as Ted Cruz on social issues), and now the last obstacle to the Trumpenstein’s domination of the right wing universe is gone.

John Kasich is dropping his presidential bid, according to a senior campaign adviser, one day after Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee and Ted Cruz bowed out of the race.

The Ohio governor had long ago been mathematically eliminated from clinching the GOP nomination outright but had hoped to emerge as a consensus candidate at a contested convention.