The Latest: NH GOP: Lewandowski still chair of NH delegation


              Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs after speaking at a rally Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump signs autographs after speaking at a rally Saturday, June 18, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Campaign 2016. All times EDT:

11:13 a.m.

New Hampshire Republican Party officials say Corey Lewandowski remains chairman of the state's convention delegates, despite his departure from Donald Trump's campaign Monday.

A spokeswoman for the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said in a statement that Lewandowski was no longer with the campaign.

That raised questions about whether Lewandowski would continue in his role leading New Hampshire's 23 delegates to the convention in Cleveland. Of those, 11 are Trump delegates, all chosen by him.

Lewandowski was elected chair by his fellow delegates in May, a position he will continue to hold unless he resigns. A state party spokesman says Monday, "at this point the delegation remains unchanged."

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10:08 a.m.

Donald Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, is leaving the campaign, following a tumultuous stretch marked by missteps and infighting.

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks says "Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign." She says the campaign is grateful for his "hard work and dedication" and wishes him the best.

Lewandowski has been by Trump's side since the beginning of his unlikely rise to presumptive GOP nominee.

The move comes as Trump faces continued deep resistance from many quarters of his party concerned by his contentious statements.

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8:14 a.m.

Republican Donald Trump is now claiming that he never suggested club-goers attacked in the Orlando massacre should have been allowed to be armed.

Trump says on Twitter that he was "obviously talking about additional guards or employees" of the Florida nightclub when he spoke about guns in the venue.

Trump's point, though, was not so obvious when he made it.

In Atlanta last week, he told a rally crowd: "If some of those great people that were in that club that night had guns strapped to their waist or strapped to their ankle and if the bullets were going in the other direction ... you would have had a situation."

Trump's new tweet comes after NRA officials said Sunday that people shouldn't be in nightclubs, drinking and carrying firearms.

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