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The Latest: Trump outside Chicago arrives to calmer crowd

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2015, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Promising to tear up trade deals and tax imports, Trump taps into voter fears of foreign competition long unaddressed by the political system. But analysts say his ideas are misguided. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2015, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Promising to tear up trade deals and tax imports, Trump taps into voter fears of foreign competition long unaddressed by the political system. But analysts say his ideas are misguided. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)

By Associated Press 4 min read

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the 2016 presidential race two days before critical contests in Florida, Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina and Illinois (all times Eastern Daylight Time):

11:04 a.m.

Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump is returning to Illinois after canceling a Friday night appearance in Chicago amid clashes between protesters and his supporters.

The mood was far more muted Sunday outside the Bloomington airport in central Illinois, where about 100 protesters gathered along an access road on an a foggy, overcast morning near the airplane hangar where Trump was scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. CST.

Some participants said they decided to drive the 130 miles from Chicago after the abrupt cancellation of that event. And some protesters said they felt emboldened to stand in a light but steady drizzle only after seeing reports of clashes in Ohio, Kansas City and elsewhere Saturday.