Donald Trump is going to be the GOP nominee and people are freaking out

The country is trying to make sense of Trump's stunning (presumptive) victory.
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Wow.

So it really happened. Blustery reality TV star and real estate mogul Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee for president. 


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Given there's still a handful of primary elections, the conventions and the entire general election cycle still to come, we've got a ways to go. But the country is coming to terms Tuesday night with what few initially thought would happen and they've turned to Twitter to make sense of it all. 


















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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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