LA PORTE, Ind. — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was blitzing through Indiana on Monday in a bid to overtake Donald Trump in the state's primary and keep his own White House hopes alive.
Trump is the only candidate in the race who can reach the 1,237 delegates needed for the GOP nomination through regular voting, though Cruz is trying to push the race toward a contested convention.
"This whole long, wild ride of an election has all culminated with the entire country with its eyes fixed on the state of Indiana," Cruz said Sunday at a late night rally. "The people of this great state, I believe the country is depending on you to pull us back from the brink."
Several hundred people came to see him Monday at Bravo Cafe in Osceola, where he predicted a close finish in the Tuesday primary and said: "We need every single vote."
Cruz was holding five events across Indiana on Monday. Trump was holding a pair of rallies in the state, though he was already looking past Cruz and setting his sights on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Trump made clear Monday that he would keep up his accusation that Clinton is playing gender politics: "We're making a list of the many, many times where it's all about her being a woman."
For her part, Clinton told thousands at an NAACP dinner in Detroit on Sunday that President Barack Obama's legacy can't be allowed to "fall into Donald Trump's hands" and be consumed by "these voices of hatred." She cited Trump's "insidious" part in the birther movement that questioned Obama's citizenship.
Clinton's campaign said Monday that she had raised $26 million in April.
Read Tuesday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.