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         Trump, Cruz in 2 More Presidential Nominating Contests Tuesday

   by Ken Bredemeier

   U.S. Republican presidential candidates are headed to two more
   contentious state nominating contests on Tuesday, with the
   front-runner, billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump, and his
   nearest challenger, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, likely to split the
   contests.

   A massive number of votes have already been cast in early voting in the
   western state of Arizona, likely giving Trump an edge, since the
   Republican ballots were printed awhile ago and also list the names of
   candidates who have since dropped out of the party's presidential
   campaign.

   Cruz is claiming that he is the only candidate who has a chance to
   overtake Trump, but with other names on the party primary election
   ballot, Trump could only win a plurality and still collect all 58
   delegates to the Republican national convention, where the party will
   formally select its 2016 nominee.

   ''Meanwhile, political surveys show Cruz, a conservative firebrand in
   the halls of Congress, likely to win party caucuses in Utah, another
   Western state. But if he does, his margin over Trump will prove
   crucial, with all 40 convention delegates going to the winner, if he
   gets more than 50 percent of the vote, while the convention delegates
   would be apportioned according to the vote count if no candidate gets a
   majority.

   The third candidate remaining in the Republican race, Ohio Governor
   John Kasich, is not expected to factor in the outcome in either state.

   Both Trump and Cruz appealed to voters Saturday with tough promises to
   deal with illegal immigration into the United States.

   Trump appeared at rallies in Arizona, one the of the focal points of
   the contentious U.S. debate over illegal immigration from across the
   border with Mexico. Trump, who has vowed to build an impenetrable wall
   along the border, declared, "Illegal immigration is gonna stop. It's
   dangerous. Terrible."

   Cruz, in Utah, pledged to block a number of U.S. cities from declaring
   themselves as "sanctuary cities," where officials try to protect
   illegal migrants from being arrested and deported.

   ''Kasich, running a distant third in the race for the Republican
   presidential contest, told one interviewer Sunday that Trump's call to
   deport 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S. is impractical
   and  "a promise that will never happen."

   The two Democratic presidential candidates, the leader, former
   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her sole challenger, Vermont
   Senator Bernie Sanders, also are squaring off in Arizona and Utah on
   Tuesday, as well as in caucuses in a third western state, Idaho.

   Sanders visited a U.S.-Mexican border outpost on Saturday, promising to
   take more steps to keep immigrants from being deported. He denounced
   the "divisive, bigoted and xenophobic comments of people like Donald
   Trump."

   Clinton, with a substantial lead over Sanders for the Democratic
   presidential nomination, is planning Arizona rallies for Monday. She
   also has attacked Trump for his immigration views.

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