WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the presidential campaign …(all times Eastern Daylight Time):
12:15 p.m.
Sen. Susan Collins is the latest Republican to reject GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about the ethnic background of an American federal judge.
Trump is insisting that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whose parents were born in Mexico, cannot be impartial overseeing the class action lawsuits against Trump University. Curiel’s ethnicity, Trump says, puts him in conflict with the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s plan to build a wall with Mexico.
The Maine senator Monday called Trump’s comments “absolutely unacceptable” and in conflict with what she called, “American values.”
Other Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, have rejected Trump’s remarks and urged him to unite the GOP.
Curiel has not commented and Trump’s legal team has not sought his recusal from the case.
Trump on Monday said he’s only defending Trump University from relentless questions from reporters and others.
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11:57 a.m.
It will be a little while longer before final vote totals are known in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary, because the U.S. territory’s election commission has taken the day off.
The island’s Democratic Party chairman tells The Associated Press the commission will resume manually counting votes on Tuesday.
Roberto Prats says commission officials worked until nearly dawn Monday to count the results of Sunday’s primary election.
He said a final certification will likely be issued Tuesday afternoon.
Hillary Clinton won the race over Bernie Sanders. She has just over 60 percent to Sanders’ nearly 39 percent, with roughly two-thirds of the vote tallied.
Clinton is 26 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination, according to an Associated Press count.
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11:57 a.m.
It will be a little while longer before final vote totals are known in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary, because the U.S. territory’s election commission has taken the day off.
The island’s Democratic Party chairman tells The Associated Press the commission will resume manually counting votes on Tuesday.
Roberto Prats says commission officials worked until nearly dawn Monday to count the results of Sunday’s primary election.
He said a final certification will likely be issued Tuesday afternoon.
Hillary Clinton won the race over Bernie Sanders. She has just over 60 percent to Sanders’ nearly 39 percent, with roughly two-thirds of the vote tallied.
Clinton is 26 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination, according to an Associated Press count.