ohio governor jaohn kasich dropped out of the race today and with that the focus is centered on trump and democratic front-runner hillary clinton who despite last night's loss to bernie sanders continues to maintain a big delegate lead. investors are watching all of this very closely and so is john harwood. john i have to say after how personal it got yesterday with mr. cruz and mr. trump i was a little surprised that he got out last night. why did he and kasich decide to leave now. >> i was surprised to. i took ted cruz at his word that he was going to fight on throughle ka, but the fiez of that victory in indiana simply broke the will of ted cruz to continue and the same with john kasich. john kasich never rose up to seriously threatened and both of them realized in it wasn't going to work for them and get out now and set up this general election contrast. >> last night you said that the general election would likely start today. how are things shaping up. >> as it starts hillary clinton has got a lead. if you look at the average she's got a 7 point lead. in the nbc wall street poll