WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the presidential campaign, with Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders holding events Sunday in California and Democrats in Puerto Rico voting in the party’s primary (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says Donald Trump’s criticism of a federal judge hearing a lawsuit against Trump University is one of the candidate’s “worst mistakes” and is “inexcusable.”
Gingrich is declining on “Fox News Sunday” to accuse the presumptive Republican presidential nominee of racism.
But Gingrich says Trump has to recognize that he’s now the “potential leader” of the U.S. and should move his game to a new level.
Trump has proposed building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. And he argues that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel has a conflict of interest in the legal case because of the judge’s heritage and because of Trump’s border plan.
Curiel is a native of Indiana whose parents emigrated from Mexico.
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Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump “doesn’t really have ideas” but “makes bizarre rants and engages in personal feuds and outright lies.”
Clinton is likely to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in the next few days, and she’s taking direct aim at Trump as she tries to move past challenger Bernie Sanders.
She tells ABC’s “This Week” that people around the world aren’t used to seeing an American presidential candidate who’s “so loose with the truth, so divisive.”
Clinton is just 60 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to advance to the November general election, according to The Associated Press’ count. Puerto Rico holds its primary Sunday and 60 delegates are at stake.
On Tuesday, six states – including New Jersey and California – vote, with 694 delegates up for grabs.