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| Trump leads in Arizona while Cruz pulls ahead in Utah – campaign live | Trump leads in Arizona while Cruz pulls ahead in Utah – campaign live |
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| Cruz: 'patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods' | |
| In a new statement on the Brussels attacks, Republican hopeful Ted Cruz has called for a law enforcement focus on “Muslim neighborhoods”. | |
| “We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized, Cruz said in a statement posted to Facebook. | |
| “We need to immediately halt the flow of refugees from countries with a significant al Qaida or ISIS presence,” Cruz said: | |
| We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized. | |
| We need to secure the southern border to prevent terrorist infiltration. | |
| And we need to execute a coherent campaign to utterly destroy ISIS. | |
| The days of the United States voluntarily surrendering to the enemy to show how progressive and enlightened we can be are at an end. Our country is at stake. | |
| Read the full statement here. | |
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| The Arizona Republicans are voting in a winner-take-all primary, with the prize being 58 delegates. | |
| Voters face long waits at one Arizona polling site #Election2016: https://t.co/8sX9Xm7rZH pic.twitter.com/sQBfoxcQxU | |
| Here’s our delegate tracker for the Republican side: | |
| Utah Republicans will caucus with 40 delegates at stake, to be shared out proportionally unless any one candidate claims more than 50% of the vote, in which case he wins all 40. Could Cruz cross the wire? Mitt Romney at the weekend warned Utahns that a vote for Kasich was a vote for Trump. And Cruz’s ground game is strong in both states. There’s not much polling in Utah, but Cruz appears to be far in the lead. | |
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| Arpaio: Trump reminds me of me | |
| Paul Lewis | |
| As Arizona votes, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa county, Joe Arpaio, has spoken at length with Guardian US west coast bureau chief Paul Lewis. | |
| “Arizonans searching for a glimpse of what a Trump administration would be like could do worse than reflect on the 23-year reign of the Maricopa County sheriff,” writes Paul: | |
| Arpaio, who has been found to have systematically racially profiled Latinos, runs a notorious jail in which inmates are housed in tents – a facility that even he has joked is comparable to a concentration camp. | |
| He once launched an investigation into Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which he still maintains is a forgery. Trump, who once offered $50m to see the same birth certificate, has avoided questions on the issue since launching his campaign for the White House. | |
| During an eve-of-election interview with the Guardian that lasted close to two hours, Arpaio, 83, reflected on how he had been thrust to the centre of both the Republican and Democratic races, and toyed for the first time with the possibility of a role in a Trump administration. | |
| He likes the sheriff. ... This guy is different. I don’t have an ego because I got a guy that might become the president that likes the sheriff. They all like me until they get elected. But he’s different. | |
| Related: Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Donald Trump: 'My mission is to get him elected' | |
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| Clinton draws a tacit distinction between herself and Trump, especially, in their views on responding to terrorism: | Clinton draws a tacit distinction between herself and Trump, especially, in their views on responding to terrorism: |
| We can be strong and smart without advocating torture or bigotry. We will not let fear dictate our foreign policy. | We can be strong and smart without advocating torture or bigotry. We will not let fear dictate our foreign policy. |
| 3.41pm GMT | 3.41pm GMT |
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| Sanders: this 'barbarism cannot be allowed' | Sanders: this 'barbarism cannot be allowed' |
| Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders has issued a statement on the Brussels attacks. Here it is in full: | Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders has issued a statement on the Brussels attacks. Here it is in full: |
| We offer our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones in this barbaric attack and to the people of Brussels who were the target of another cowardly attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. We stand with our European allies to offer any necessary assistance in these difficult times. | We offer our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones in this barbaric attack and to the people of Brussels who were the target of another cowardly attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. We stand with our European allies to offer any necessary assistance in these difficult times. |
| Today’s attack is a brutal reminder that the international community must come together to destroy ISIS. This type of barbarism cannot be allowed to continue.” | Today’s attack is a brutal reminder that the international community must come together to destroy ISIS. This type of barbarism cannot be allowed to continue.” |
| 3.39pm GMT | 3.39pm GMT |
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| Trump asserts that his take on terrorism – how would you summarize it? “Threats exist so close the borders and ‘bomb the shit out of ’em’”? – has proven “far more correct” than anybody’s: | Trump asserts that his take on terrorism – how would you summarize it? “Threats exist so close the borders and ‘bomb the shit out of ’em’”? – has proven “far more correct” than anybody’s: |
| I have proven to be far more correct about terrorism than anybody- and it’s not even close. Hopefully AZ and UT will be voting for me today! | I have proven to be far more correct about terrorism than anybody- and it’s not even close. Hopefully AZ and UT will be voting for me today! |
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| Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies | Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford dies |
| Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who succumbed to a scandal surrounding his use of crack cocaine but remained in politics, has died after fighting cancer, the Associated Press reports. | Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who succumbed to a scandal surrounding his use of crack cocaine but remained in politics, has died after fighting cancer, the Associated Press reports. |
| Ford had been in the hospital since late February. His chief of staff said last week that doctors were working on building his strength to be able to resume chemotherapy. In October 2015, doctors discovered two cancerous growths on his bladder. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. | Ford had been in the hospital since late February. His chief of staff said last week that doctors were working on building his strength to be able to resume chemotherapy. In October 2015, doctors discovered two cancerous growths on his bladder. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. |
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| Brussels attacks: candidates respond | Brussels attacks: candidates respond |
| The first responses of the four US presidential candidates to the attacks in Brussels included expressions of solidarity, vows to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism”, criticism of Barack Obama, calls for and against torture and calls for and against closed borders. | The first responses of the four US presidential candidates to the attacks in Brussels included expressions of solidarity, vows to defeat “radical Islamic terrorism”, criticism of Barack Obama, calls for and against torture and calls for and against closed borders. |
| Here’s a roundup of the presidential candidates’ initial responses to the Brussels attacks ( | Here’s a roundup of the presidential candidates’ initial responses to the Brussels attacks ( |
| senator Bernie Sanders has not yet released a statement | senator Bernie Sanders has not yet released a statement |
| Update: Sanders has issued a statement here): | Update: Sanders has issued a statement here): |
| Related: US presidential candidates respond to attacks in Brussels | Related: US presidential candidates respond to attacks in Brussels |
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| at 3.45pm GMT | at 3.45pm GMT |
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| Aipac president distances group from Trump remarks | Aipac president distances group from Trump remarks |
| The president of Aipac, the pro-Israel lobby, has taken the conference stage Tuesday morning and said that an exuberant reception by the crowd Monday night for a Donald Trump attack on Barack Obama was not appropriate and that the applause was not representative of what the group agrees with or condones. | The president of Aipac, the pro-Israel lobby, has taken the conference stage Tuesday morning and said that an exuberant reception by the crowd Monday night for a Donald Trump attack on Barack Obama was not appropriate and that the applause was not representative of what the group agrees with or condones. |
| Aipac president Lillian Pinkus said the group takes “great offense” to Trump’s comments, JNS reports. | Aipac president Lillian Pinkus said the group takes “great offense” to Trump’s comments, JNS reports. |
| “With President Obama in his final year - YAY!” Trump said, to perhaps the most sustained applause of this evening’s session. “He may be the worst thing to ever happen to Israel, believe me. And you know it better than anyone.” | “With President Obama in his final year - YAY!” Trump said, to perhaps the most sustained applause of this evening’s session. “He may be the worst thing to ever happen to Israel, believe me. And you know it better than anyone.” |
| “While we may have policy differences, we deeply respect the office of the president of the United States and our president, Barack Obama,” Pinkus said. | “While we may have policy differences, we deeply respect the office of the president of the United States and our president, Barack Obama,” Pinkus said. |
| “There are people in our AIPAC family who were deeply hurt last night,” she said. She regretted that “so many applauded a sentiment that we neither agree with or condone.” | “There are people in our AIPAC family who were deeply hurt last night,” she said. She regretted that “so many applauded a sentiment that we neither agree with or condone.” |
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| Democracy Now! host: media 'manufactures consent' on Trump | Democracy Now! host: media 'manufactures consent' on Trump |
| Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman has called out the TV media for ignoring a large Bernie Sanders rally in Phoenix last Tuesday night, and instead engaging in a holding pattern in advance of a Donald Trump victory speech. “But it’s not only the networks,” she says, recalling a string of anti-Sanders pieces in the Washington Post. | Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman has called out the TV media for ignoring a large Bernie Sanders rally in Phoenix last Tuesday night, and instead engaging in a holding pattern in advance of a Donald Trump victory speech. “But it’s not only the networks,” she says, recalling a string of anti-Sanders pieces in the Washington Post. |
| “The media manufactures consent, as Noam Chomsky says,” Goodman tells host Brian Stelter. “This exposure for Trump is very frightening. Yes, there is now some critical coverage, but for the year 2015, as the snowball rolled and got larger and larger, he got 23 times the coverage of Bernie Sanders.” | “The media manufactures consent, as Noam Chomsky says,” Goodman tells host Brian Stelter. “This exposure for Trump is very frightening. Yes, there is now some critical coverage, but for the year 2015, as the snowball rolled and got larger and larger, he got 23 times the coverage of Bernie Sanders.” |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 3.07pm GMT | at 3.07pm GMT |