Trump Vows To Keep Up Attacks On Republicans
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign, with the focus Saturday on Wisconsin, which holds its primaries Tuesday (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
9:15 p.m.
Donald Trump is vowing not to muzzle his criticism of fellow Republicans.
Trump, in his third Wisconsin event Saturday, says his inner circle and even his family beg him to lay off his GOP rivals. He is telling the cheering Eau Claire crowd that "I don't care."
Trump says: "If it works, great. If it doesn't work, great."
Trump is also calling Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton "a disaster" and President Barack Obama "a baby" for approving the Iran nuclear deal.
He says, "How we have this man for a president is just embarrassing."
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9 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has backed off his feud with Donald Trump over the front-runner's negative comments about Cruz's wife.
Trump told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd in an article published Saturday that it was a mistake to retweet an unflattering photo of Cruz's wife paired with a glamorous photo of his own wife, Melania Trump.
Trump says if he had to do it again, he wouldn't have sent the retweet.
After a movie screening in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, Cruz was asked about Trump's comments.
He says it's gotten to the point where he couldn't care less. Cruz says, "If he says it's a mistake, that's fine, it's a mistake."
Cruz says he has no interest in seeing political candidates attack each other's families.
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9 p.m.
Hillary Clinton is reminding 1,500 stalwart Democrats in Wisconsin she has long been one of them — unlike Bernie Sanders, a longtime independent.
At a banquet in Milwaukee ahead of the April 5 Wisconsin primary, Clinton mentioned her membership and support for the Democratic Party five times in the first few minutes of her speech.
She says, "I am a proud Democrat and I support Democrats up and down the ticket, always have and always will."
Clinton followed Sanders, a Vermont senator, onstage at the Wisconsin Center. The two are locked in a close battle in Tuesday's primary.
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8:25 p.m.
Bernie Sanders is endearing himself to a banquet hall full of devout Democratic Party members in Milwaukee by promising to "do exactly the opposite" of everything Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has done.
The Vermont senator walked on stage at the Wisconsin Center after a short video akin to his popular television advertisement featuring the Simon and Garfunkel song "America."
The 1,500 Wisconsin Democratic activists, officials and donors in attendance stood and applauded as Sanders took the stage.
Walker came to national attention for his push against public-sector unions in 2011.
The Republican governor, who pulled the plug on his own presidential campaign in September, has endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the Wisconsin Republican primary.
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