Republican voters apparently have chosen their presidential candidate. We'll find out on Nov. 8 if a majority still approves of their choice.
With the exit of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz from the race for the GOP nomination after a trouncing in the Indiana primary Tuesday and Ohio Gov. John Kasich bowing out Wednesday, billionaire businessman Donald J. Trump is the presumptive GOP pick for the fall.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus quickly called for unity in the party.
Trump has tapped into the anger and frustration millions of voters have felt from the seven-plus years of the Obama administration's assault on traditional American values and on the inability of the Republican Party, which controls both the House and Senate, to do anything about it.
Despite a campaign that in its early days insulted Mexican immigrants, turned off women with vituperative comments and was staged with the maturity of a playground fight, the New Yorker peeled away vote after vote from a strong, 17-candidate field that included a handful of successful governors and former governors and several attractive senators.
Trump continued to succeed even after polls showed him easily losing the general election to a Democrat candidate with other GOP contenders winning that matchup.
Indeed, if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee - and she lost yet another state Tuesday - the electorate will choose between the two least popular candidates in one presidential race in American history. They will, for sure, combine to be the two oldest presidential candidates - both are or will be 69 years old - ever to come before voters.
The opinion polls might even start identifying the percentage of voters who plan to sit on their hands and not vote rather than cast a ballot for Trump or Clinton.
Once the magic delegate numbers are reached by the front-runners, both parties will feign unity while doing their best to push their candidate across the November finish line first.
Democrats traditionally find that easier to do than Republicans, who handed Obama his second term in 2012 by staying at home and not voting for Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, Obama polled 4 million fewer votes than he did in 2008, and he still won going away.
In 2016, the ones staying home may be those who voted for Romney - and high-rolling GOP donors already have said as much - while those who stayed at home four years ago will come out and vote from Trump.
The question is will there be enough of them to put up a decent showing against Clinton, perhaps the least effective and certainly the most-damaged Democratic candidate in more than four decades.
With Trump's inch-deep but all-over-the-board stances on abortion, Planned Parenthood, gay marriage, the Iran nuclear deal, gun rights, trade agreements, the Middle East and Russia, voters may decide there's not a dime's worth of difference between him and the former first lady.
He's also not likely to do well with women (Clinton being the presumptive first female nominee), blacks (though probably better than Romney), Hispanics (that early remark is not easily forgotten) and young people (who were eager to vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders, someone to the far left of Clinton).
Even in the red-state South, it's hard to find people who will admit to supporting Trump. They're out there, but they're as anxious to reveal their backing as they are to reveal they have toe fungus.
Even backers of the businessman have said his general-election ground game is not solid, and that's not even accounting for Clinton's seasoned attack machine.
If Trump's Republican primary opponents thought they felt the sting of his insults, his lack of self-restraint and his unproven innuendos, they are nothing compared to the steamrolling awaiting him from the Clintons, who have never met a candidate they couldn't smear.
He'll also have the current president against him and the traditional media. To say the least, it's a difficult road he'll have to walk.
Unfortunately, the next six months likely will produce a new low for American politics as two extremely disliked candidates - polls say him more than her - attempt to prove they are worth electing to the highest office in the land and the most powerful job in the world.
Clinton has proven she is unqualified for the office with her patent dishonesty, her willingness to believe she is above the law and her family's money-grubbing foundation. Trump, with sloganeering, lightweight policy pronouncements and his lack of political experience, hasn't proven he is qualified.
With this unseemly pair, the country is about to see what it has wrought.