Washington Primary Already Decided? Visit By Trump Still In Question

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — With the back-to-back news that Ted Cruz and John Kasich were dropping out of the Republican presidential contest, Washington state's primary later this month packs less of a punch.

While state Republicans will still use the May 24 election to allocate the state's 44 delegates, with no other candidates left in the race after Kasich's expected announcement Wednesday that he is ending his campaign, Donald Trump is the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee.

The state had been preparing for visits from all three candidates in the coming days, but it was unclear Wednesday whether even Trump would still visit the state on Saturday.

Washington has both a presidential primary and a caucus system, but Democrats ignore the primary and use only the caucus system to allocate 101 delegates to candidates at the national convention. Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly won the state's Democratic caucuses on March 26.