By the time the evening ends — or when the vote count finishes — Donald Trump should have enough delegates to win the GOP presidential nomination on the first ballot. There may not be a lot of suspense in the race any longer, since Nikki Haley suspended the last campaign competing against the former president and clear incumbent in the Republican field. But the opera ain’t over until the fat lady sings, as Yogi Berra never actually said. (It came from Texas A&M basketball announcer Ralph Carpenter; Berra offered the more Yogi-esque tautology, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”)
At the moment, Trump only needs 139 more delegates to clinch the nomination. Four states go to the polls today with 161 Republican delegates at stake: Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington state. Given that none of these are a bastion of Haley sentiment — not even South Carolina turned out to be a…