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                      Clinton, Trump Win Arizona Primaries

   by VOA News

   Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton each won their
   party's primary in the western state of Arizona on Wednesday, further
   boosting their leads in the race to secure nominations for the November
   presidential election.

   Neither primary was close, with both winning by more than 20 percent
   according to early returns. Trump's victory earned him all of Arizona's
   58 delegates to the Republican party's convention in July.  Clinton got
   most of Arizona's Democratic delegates.

   The outcome appeared more in doubt in Utah, a heavily Mormon state.
   Pre-election polls showed Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the lead, but he
   can only claim all 40 delegates at stake if he gets more than half the
   vote at party caucuses. Otherwise, the delegates will be split
   according to the vote count.

   The polls showed Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state, engaged in
   a close caucus race with her sole challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie
   Sanders, in both Utah and Idaho.

   Tuesday's voting took place in the hours after the deadly terrorist
   attacks at the airport in the Belgian capital of Brussels and at a
   subway station not far from the European Union headquarters.

   Trump, who called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.
   after previous attacks linked to Islamic terrorists, said he had warned
   about new assaults. "Brussels was a beautiful city, a beautiful place
   with zero crime, and now it's a disaster city," Trump said.

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   Ohio Governor John Kasich said the global community must "redouble" its
   efforts to "identify, root out and destroy the perpetrators of such
   acts of evil." Cruz declared that "radical Islam is at war with us,"
   and said that if he is elected president, he would unleash the "full
   force and fury" of the U.S. military to defeat Islamic State jihadists.

   Clinton said the U.S. must "stand in solidarity" with European allies
   in fighting terrorism. "We've got to be absolutely strong and smart and
   steady in how we respond," she said. Sanders declared, "This type of
   barbarism cannot be allowed to continue," saying the attack was a
   "brutal reminder that the international community must come together to
   destroy" Islamic State.

   The Republican contest in Utah is a microcosm of the efforts by Cruz
   and Kasich to keep Trump from moving closer to the 1,237 Republican
   convention delegates he needs to clinch the presidential nomination
   before the quadrennial gathering convenes.  His opponents want to keep
   him under that threshold and instead throw the convention to an open
   vote.

   The party's 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney, said he is voting for Cruz on
   Tuesday and urged others to do the same, calling supporting Cruz the
   only way to get to the open convention and stop Trump.  Last week,
   Romney endorsed John Kasich before the Ohio governor won the
   winner-take-all primary in his home state, thus denying Trump a big
   haul of delegates in the midwestern state.

   After Tuesday, Republicans have just two contests over the next three
   weeks, in the midwestern state of Wisconsin on April 5 and in the
   western state of Colorado on April 9.
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