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| Trump leads in Arizona while Cruz pulls ahead in Utah – campaign live | |
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| Obama to speak on Brussels | |
| President Barack Obama plans to address the Brussels attacks in a scheduled address in Havana due to start in about 20 minutes. | |
| We’ll bring you the main points in this blog. If you’d like to follow the speech more closely, our live blog coverage of Obama’s trip to Cuba is here. | |
| Related: Obama speech to Cuban people will address Brussels attacks – live | |
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| Video highlights – Monday night candidates’ forum: | |
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| Cruz: 'when I am president' 'we will name our enemy' | |
| Texas senator Ted Cruz has released a statement on the Brussels attacks: | |
| Our hearts break for the men and women of Brussels this morning. Make no mistake – these terror attacks are no isolated incidents. They are just the latest in a string of coordinated attacks by radical Islamic terrorists perpetrated by those who are waging war against all who do not accept their extreme strain of Islam. | |
| Radical Islam is at war with us. For over seven years we have had a president who refuses to acknowledge this reality. And the truth is, we can never hope to defeat this evil so long as we refuse to even name it. That ends on January 20, 2017, when I am sworn in as president. We will name our enemy – radical Islamic terrorism. And we will defeat it. | |
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| Amanda Holpuch | |
| Donald Trump was the first presidential hopeful to respond to the Brussels attacks, tweeting and then appearing on multiple television shows to promote an anti-immigration policy and endorse torture. | |
| “We have to be very careful in the US, we have to be very vigilant as to who we let in this country,” Trump told Fox & Friends. | |
| Trump said if he was president, his strict immigration policies would already have been in a place. If he was in a position to respond to the Brussels attacks, he said, he would give US citizens a “pep talk”. | |
| He also endorsed the use of torture for people who have information on terrorists. | |
| “If they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding,” Trump told the Today Show. “You have to get the information from people.” | |
| He told Fox these attacks are “not our fault”, but rather the fault of immigrant communities that do not inform authorities about neighbors’ suspicious behavior. | |
| Trump also tied the Brussels attacks to the mass shooting in San Bernardino, which was carried out by married couple Syed Rizwan Farook, a US citizen, and Tashfeen Malik, who entered the US on a K-1 visa. | |
| “Everyone knew what was going on and nobody reported them,” Trump told Fox. | |
| Under a Trump presidency, he said, the US would be very vigilant and very strong. | |
| “In my opinion, this is just the beginning,” he said. “It will get worse and worse.” | |
| 12.47pm GMT | 12.47pm GMT |
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| Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Our live blog coverage of fatal explosions at an airport and in a subway in Brussels, Belgium, in which dozens have died, is here. | Hello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Our live blog coverage of fatal explosions at an airport and in a subway in Brussels, Belgium, in which dozens have died, is here. |
| “Terrorists struck Brussels but it was Europe that was targeted,” said French president François Hollande. | “Terrorists struck Brussels but it was Europe that was targeted,” said French president François Hollande. |
| Among the presidential candidates, Donald Trump responded to the attacks first, calling into Fox News to say “I’d close up our borders” and writing on Twitter: | Among the presidential candidates, Donald Trump responded to the attacks first, calling into Fox News to say “I’d close up our borders” and writing on Twitter: |
| Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels wss. Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant and smart! | Do you all remember how beautiful and safe a place Brussels wss. Not anymore, it is from a different world! U.S. must be vigilant and smart! |
| Ohio governor John Kasich released a statement: | Ohio governor John Kasich released a statement: |
| Gov. John Kasich's statement on the terrorist attacks in #Brussels. pic.twitter.com/6gwCCMwJcy | Gov. John Kasich's statement on the terrorist attacks in #Brussels. pic.twitter.com/6gwCCMwJcy |
| Today is primary day for both parties in Arizona and Utah, and Democrats are participating in caucuses in Idaho. Ted Cruz is the frontrunner in Utah, where a high proportion of Mormon voters appears to have rejected Trump, while Trump seems ahead in the border state of Arizona, where his anti-immigrant message has found traction. Here’s Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi’s cheat sheet for those contests: | Today is primary day for both parties in Arizona and Utah, and Democrats are participating in caucuses in Idaho. Ted Cruz is the frontrunner in Utah, where a high proportion of Mormon voters appears to have rejected Trump, while Trump seems ahead in the border state of Arizona, where his anti-immigrant message has found traction. Here’s Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi’s cheat sheet for those contests: |
| Related: Your cheat sheet for the Arizona, Idaho and Utah primaries | Related: Your cheat sheet for the Arizona, Idaho and Utah primaries |
| The Washington Post, meanwhile, has published the transcript of a meeting between Trump and the paper’s editorial board. Here is a snippet: | The Washington Post, meanwhile, has published the transcript of a meeting between Trump and the paper’s editorial board. Here is a snippet: |
| Washington Post: If you could substantially reduce the risk of harm to [American] ground troops, would you use a battlefield nuclear weapon to take out Isis? | Washington Post: If you could substantially reduce the risk of harm to [American] ground troops, would you use a battlefield nuclear weapon to take out Isis? |
| Trump: I don’t want to use, I don’t want to start the process of nuclear. Remember the one thing that everybody has said, I’m a counterpuncher. Rubio hit me. Bush hit me. When I said low energy, he’s a low-energy individual, he hit me first. I spent, by the way he spent $18m worth of negative ads on me. That’s putting … | Trump: I don’t want to use, I don’t want to start the process of nuclear. Remember the one thing that everybody has said, I’m a counterpuncher. Rubio hit me. Bush hit me. When I said low energy, he’s a low-energy individual, he hit me first. I spent, by the way he spent $18m worth of negative ads on me. That’s putting … |
| Related: Donald Trump meets the Washington Post – what we learned | Related: Donald Trump meets the Washington Post – what we learned |
| Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton attacked Trump at a forum Monday night in which the five candidates appeared in succession, accusing him of “bigotry and bluster and bullying” and inciting violence at his campaign rallies. In return, Trump said Clinton lacked the “stamina” and “strength” needed for the presidency. | Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton attacked Trump at a forum Monday night in which the five candidates appeared in succession, accusing him of “bigotry and bluster and bullying” and inciting violence at his campaign rallies. In return, Trump said Clinton lacked the “stamina” and “strength” needed for the presidency. |
| Related: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton trade insults on CNN | Related: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton trade insults on CNN |
| We have a lot more to cover today. Here are the states of the races: | We have a lot more to cover today. Here are the states of the races: |