Tuesday 3 May 2016

The latest: Trump attacks Cruz's Father Over Oswald image - ABC information

The newest on crusade 2016 as voters in Indiana head to the polls for the state primary (all instances japanese):

9:55 a.m.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump is resurrecting accusations in opposition t rival Ted Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, asserting that he was with President John F. Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald prior to his dying.

"The whole element is ridiculous," Trump said on Fox & pals Tuesday forward of the Indiana fundamental. "appropriate ahead of his being shot, and no-one brings it up. They don't even discuss that."

A fresh countrywide Enquirer document claimed that the elder Cruz regarded in a 1963 photograph of Oswald as he handed out leaflets for the reasonable Play for Cuba Committee.

The Cruz crusade has denied the accusations.

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eight:35 a.m.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a no-display at a morning crusade cease backyard of Indianapolis.

Cruz become presupposed to crusade alongside his wife Heidi and running mate Carly Fiorina at a pancake restaurant Tuesday as voters were set to vote in the state's important basic. however half-hour earlier than the scheduled birth of the event, Cruz's campaign noted the senator would now not be there.

Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier spoke of they made a mistake in saying in the beginning that he could be there. Cruz is slated to make a campaign cease within the southern Indiana metropolis of Evansville later Tuesday morning, then he will take the afternoon off before his simple night gathering in Indianapolis.

Fiorina and Heidi Cruz did exhibit as much as shake palms and talk with diners.

Cruz has stated he plans to continue his campaign even if he loses Indiana, a state the place he's concentrated components and spent most of his time the past two weeks attempting to win so as to stop front runner Donald Trump. but polls display Trump main heading into Election Day.

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7:forty five a.m.

Hillary Clinton's supporters say she might also have offended voters in politically essential coal country with what she acknowledge turned into a misstatement — but at least she's willing to well known her own error. Donald Trump, they say, "on no account apologizes for anything."

Clinton has spent contemporary days West Virginia and Kentucky being heckled and explaining that she had made a "misstatement" in March when she talked about in an interview on CNN that she would "put loads of coal miners and coal corporations out of business." She turned into responding to a question about how her policies would advantage terrible white americans in Southern states. She said Monday that "even if individuals vote for me or now not, whether they yell at me or no longer, it be no longer going to affect what i'll do to aid."

Democratic countrywide Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN Tuesday that Clinton did not alternate the substance of her plans for bad americans within the location, adding that "should you say anything that comes out in a hurtful means" it helps to allow them to recognize you still care about them.

Democratic strategist Brad Woodhouse introduced on the identical community that the episode showed that Clinton is "a person who's inclined to admit a misstatement." He talked about Trump, even so, "is somebody who by no means apologizes for anything."

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3:30 a.m.

Republican Ted Cruz faces a excessive-stakes look at various for his slumping presidential campaign in Tuesday's Indiana basic, one of the vital final alternatives for the Texas senator to halt Donald Trump's impressive march towards the GOP nomination.

Cruz has spent the previous week camped out in Indiana, securing the help of the state's governor and saying retired know-how executive Carly Fiorina as his running mate.

Yet his aides were pessimistic heading into Tuesday's vote casting and had been prepared for Cruz to fall brief, although the senator vowed to stay within the race, even with the results.

whereas Trump can't clinch the nomination with a big win in Indiana, his course would get more straightforward and he would have extra space for error within the crusade's closing contests.

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