UPDATE: @NBCNews projects:

Trump sweeps
Clinton wins Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware
Sanders wins Rhode Island https://t.co/UGnYTeZ3ji

— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) April 27, 2016

Five primaries today.

Hillary Clinton has sealed the deal—Bernie Sanders can't and won't catch up. Will he fight all the way to the convention? Maybe. His right. But he's done.

Unfortunately, in spite of a lot of public hand-wringing over the prospect of a Trump presidency—even my members of his own party—Trump, if anything, has only gained power. Tonight, he kicked ass in all five states.

Will the GOP elites decide to lie back and enjoy a Trump candidacy, or will they continue seeking a way around it?