Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has a selfie taken with supporters after speaking at a rally in Irvine, Calif., on Monday, April 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (Associated Press) 
 
 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has a selfie taken with supporters after speaking at a rally in Irvine, Calif., on Monday, April 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 (all times Eastern Daylight Time): 
 
 10:30 p.m. 
 
 Republican Ted Cruz is calling out chief rival Donald Trump for "whining." 
 
 The Texas senator is seizing on Trump's complaints that the GOP nomination is "rigged." Cruz went after the GOP front-runner while campaigning in San Diego Monday evening. 
 
 Cruz says, "As we know in the state of California, whine is something best served with cheese." 
 
 Addressing Trump directly, Cruz says: "Donald, it ain't stealing when the voters vote against you. It is the voters reclaiming this country and reclaiming sanity." 
 
 Cruz campaigned in California as most of other candidates in both parties focused on New York ahead of that state's April 19 primary. 
 
 California doesn't hold its presidential primaries until June 7, but the state offers more delegates than any other. 
 
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 8:30 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump's rally in Albany, New York, was interrupted several times by protesters. 
 
 The Republican front-runner spoke to approximately 10,000 people at a downtown arena Monday night but had to stop five times due to demonstrators. 
 
 Trump mocked the interrupters, telling one of them to "go home to mom." He said another "stands there smiling because he knows nobody's gonna touch him. He's protected." 
 
 Trump implored his security team and supporters to not harm the protesters, though one of the demonstrators appeared to get in a brief shoving match with a Trump backer as he was being removed. 
 
 Trump has kicked off his blitz through his native New York with a series of large, boisterous rallies. The state's primary is being held April 19. 
 
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 8:20 p.m. 
 
 Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is rallying more than 11,000 supporters in Buffalo, urging them to help create a large turnout in next week's New York presidential primary. 
 
 Sanders drew a crowd of more than 8,000 people inside the University of Buffalo's Alumni Arena and another 3,000 outside. He says voters in New York "have the possibility of making American history" in his bid against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. 
 
 Sanders says a large voter turnout will help him win the state, but warns that if there is a low turnout, "we lose." 
 
 Sanders trails Clinton among pledged delegates and is hoping a victory in New York will propel his campaign forward in contests later this month and into the spring. 
 
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 7:35 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump is angrily denouncing what he calls a "rigged system" that is allowing his Republican rivals to siphon off some of the delegates he believes should be rightfully his. 
 
 Trump is telling an audience in Albany, New York, that he is "millions of votes ahead" of Ted Cruz but is upset that the Texas senator swept all 34 of Colorado's delegates without a traditional primary vote. 
 
 The Cruz team outmaneuvered the Trump campaign at a series of recent state meetings to select national convention delegates, narrowing the path for Trump to clinch the nomination before the party convention this summer. 
 
 Trump is also complaining about Louisiana, where he won the primary but got fewer delegates than Cruz, "who got his ass kicked." 
 
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 7:20 p.m. 
 
 Donald Trump is beginning his rally in Albany, New York, with a stinging attack of Ted Cruz's criticism of "New York values." 
 
 Trump says Cruz "does not like the people of New York" and had "scorn on his face" when he derided the state's liberal politics during a Republican debate earlier this year. 
 
 Trump says the state's actual values were on display when it bounced back after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. 
 
 Officials at Albany's Times Union Center say approximately 10,000 people are in the arena to listen to Trump Monday night. New York's primary is April 19 and the Trump campaign is aiming to win most of his native state's 95 delegates. 
 
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 6:42 p.m. 
 
 Bernie Sanders is dropping by a Buffalo union hall to address workers who plan to strike against Verizon on Wednesday morning. 
 
 The Democratic presidential candidate tells members of the Communications Workers of America Local 1122 that they are showing "enormous courage" by demonstrating for job security and better pensions. 
 
 Sanders says the union members are standing up to "the outrageous greed of Verizon and corporate America." The CWA endorsed Sanders in December. 
 
 He's holding a Buffalo rally on Monday night ahead of next week's New York primary. 
 
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 5:05 p.m. 
 
 Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is reiterating her promise to release transcripts of her paid speeches to Wall Street banks but only when other candidates agree to do the same. 
 
 Speaking to the New York Daily News editorial board on Saturday, Clinton said that she "had reason to believe" that Donald Trump had given speeches for "rather considerable amounts." 
 
 Before the interview concluded, Clinton also took pains to criticize a plan that would cut federal counterterrorism funding for New York City. 
 
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 5:05 p.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton is acknowledging some of the consequences of the 1994 crime bill during a newspaper editorial board interview, saying that the legislation led to "over criminalization" of non-violent offenders. 
 
 Speaking to the New York Daily News editorial board on Saturday, Clinton praised parts of the bill, which was a key achievement of her husband's administration. Clinton noted that the bill came at a time of high crime rates and included an assault weapons ban, put more police on the street and sought to prevent violence against women. 
 
 But she also agreed with critics who say the bill contributed to high levels of incarceration for non-violent crimes, like drug offenses. 
 
 Clinton acknowledged there was "a real problem," but added that there were "some positive changes that came out." 
 
 She urged for constant evaluation. 
 
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 3:35 p.m. 
 
 Bernie Sanders is pointing to the Justice Department's roughly $5 billion settlement with Goldman Sachs over the sale of mortgage-backed securities, saying it's a system that must be changed. 
 
 During a rally in Albany, New York, the Democratic presidential candidate read part of an Associated Press story about the settlement resolving state and federal probes into the sale of shoddy mortgages in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis. 
 
 Sanders said instead of the term "shoddy," he said, "the real word is illegal." He said "this is the system that we are living in and this is the system that we have to change." 
 
 The Vermont senator is competing against Hillary Clinton in next week's New York presidential primary. 
 
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 2:35 p.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton is hitting rival Bernie Sanders on his gun control record, saying he's failed to take a strong stand against stopping the spread of firearms. 
 
 Sanders has cited his background as a senator from Vermont as the reason for some of his votes against gun control measures, saying that rural states have a different relationship to guns. 
 
 Most of the guns used in killings in New York, she tells an audience in Long Island, come from out of state. The highest per capita number of guns used in New York crime comes from Vermont, she said, prompting an audible gasp from the crowd. 
 
 Clinton said: "This not, oh I live in a rural state we don't have any of those problems. You know what, it's easy to cross borders." 
 
 She added that people who are "dangerously mentally ill, they cross borders too and sometimes they do it to get the guns they use." 
 
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 2:15 p.m. 
 
 Ted Cruz is spending his day campaigning in southern California, a state that holds presidential primaries for both parties on June 7, the last day of primary voting. 
 
 The Texas senator's appearance Monday was a reminder that regardless of what happens in New York's April 19 elections, the presidential nomination on the Republican side — if not for both parties — won't be decided for another two months. 
 
 Cruz was scheduled to appear at a rally in Orange County, a Republican stronghold south of Los Angeles, before an evening appearance in San Diego. 
 
 The Texas senator has cast himself as more electable than Republican rival Donald Trump, in part because of organizational advantages in the complicated and tedious process of collecting delegates heading into the summer national convention. 
 
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 1:40 p.m. 
 
 Vice President Joe Biden says Bernie Sanders wasn't being sexist when he said Hillary Clinton wasn't qualified to be president. 
 
 Biden defended both Sanders and Clinton in an interview with the website Mic. He says they're both "totally qualified." 
 
 Sanders last week questioned Clinton's qualifications in light of donations a super PAC supporting her has received. Biden says that kind of attack is simply what campaigns do. He said Sanders never said Clinton wasn't qualified because she's a woman. 
 
 Biden also said that Clinton isn't being held to a higher standard because of her gender. He says the U.S. is ready for a female president and that he wants to see one. 
 
 But Biden affirmed that he and President Barack Obama won't endorse either candidate in the Democratic primary. He says the party should decide its candidate. 
 
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 1:02 p.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton is casting rival Bernie Sanders as unprepared for the White House, saying the Democratic primary candidate "has had trouble answering questions." 
 
 Clinton says she's looking forward to a debate in Brooklyn later this week, saying Sanders has struggled to detail his foreign policy positions and plans to regulate Wall Street. 
 
 She adds: "Sen. Sanders couldn't even answer questions about whatever his plan is." 
 
 Clinton also says the more aggressive tone taken by her opponent and his supporters reflects "a growing level of anxiety" in his campaign. 
 
 The former New York senator spoke to reporters at an Indian restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens. She is in the midst of a campaign swing through New York City and the Long Island suburbs ahead of the April 19 primary. 
 
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 12:40 p.m. 
 
 Hillary Clinton says Republican front-runner Donald Trump doesn't respect the diversity of his home city. 
 
 Clinton is mingling with southeast Asian community officials at an Indian buffet restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, the home borough of the GOP front-runner. 
 
 The Democratic presidential candidate notes that Trump is from the area, "yet he seems not to respect diversity." She promises to continue speaking out against him saying "his words are hurting our country" 
 
 Clinton, who was joined by Rep. Joe Crowley, is in the midst of a campaign swing through the city and Long Island suburbs ahead of the April 19 primary. Her campaign is counting on a strong showing from minority voters to beat rival Bernie Sanders. 
 
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 11:05 a.m. 
 
 A swing through upstate New York is providing Bernie Sanders with a fresh opportunity to contrast himself with Hillary Clinton on fracking — an oil and gas drilling method that's been banned in the state. 
 
 In a lengthy riff at a rally in Binghamton, New York, Monday, Sanders hit Clinton for promoting fracking as secretary of state and only offering conditional opposition to the practice. 
 
 Sanders said eliminating the practice is critical in fighting climate change, one of his top issues. He said doing so requires "bold leadership." He also said that Clinton has not "led the opposition" against fossil fuels but rather came on board at the end. 
 
 Early in the event, Sanders' crowd booed loudly when he said Clinton's name. 
 
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 10:40 a.m. 
 
 Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is claiming to be thrifty in an email asking supporters to help him pay off more than $1 million in presidential campaign debt. 
 
 Walker said in the fundraising plea sent Sunday that "If there is one thing the American people learned about me during our presidential campaign, it is that I am thrifty." 
 
 Walker spent more than $90,000 a day on his 70-day run for president. 
 
 Walker said in the email he's thrifty because he likes to use coupons and shop sales racks. 
 
 The email says anyone who donates $45 will receive a Walker presidential campaign T-shirt. But due to a lack of resources, size and color requests won't be honored. 
 
 Walker says the shirts can be framed or made into a pillow or bag. 
 
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 10:00 a.m. 
 
 Republican front-runner Donald Trump says his children will not be able to vote for him in the upcoming New York presidential primary because they didn't register in time. 
 
 In an interview on Fox News Monday, Trump said his children, Eric and Ivanka, "feel very, very guilty" not to have registered, saying that they were "unaware of the rules." 
 
 Trump didn't provide further details on their failure to register, saying, simple, "it's fine." 
 
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 3:30 a.m. 
 
 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is blasting the way the country chooses presidential party nominees as "corrupt" and "crooked." 
 
 His harsh criticism comes as Trump grapples with the potential of a brokered convention that he risks losing. 
 
 Speaking to thousands packed in a frigid airport hangar in western New York on Sunday, Trump ripped the byzantine fight over delegates at the heart of his party's nominating process. He argued anew that the person who wins the most votes in the primary process should automatically be the GOP nominee. 
 
 The billionaire businessman, who has been leading throughout the GOP race, charged that "what they're trying to do is subvert the movement with crooked shenanigans." 
 
 He's coming to terms with the political reality of chasing delegates ahead of the nominating convention. ||||| WARREN, Mich. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Donald Trump says a violent episode involving a protester at one of his rallies “was amazing to watch.” 
 
 The Republican presidential front-runner told a Warren, Michigan audience on Friday that he’s tired of political correctness when it comes to handling protesters. He was interrupted several times during his remarks by yelling protesters, as he often is at his events. 
 
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 During one interruption, Trump said, “Get him out. Try not to hurt him. If you do I’ll defend you in court.” 
 
 “Are Trump rallies the most fun?” he then asked the crowd. “We’re having a good time.” 
 
 He then recalled an incident at a New Hampshire rally where a protester started “swinging and punching.” Trump said some people in the audience “took him out.” 
 
 “It was really amazing to watch,” he said. 
 
 Police are investigating at least two alleged assaults against protesters at a recent Kentucky rally. One, captured on video, involves a young African-American woman who was repeatedly shoved and called “scum.” 
 
 Trump was also slamming his opponents while campaigning near Detroit Friday morning, just hours after the most recent GOP debate, CBS2 reported. 
 
 “Littke Marco, little Marco,” Trump said. “Lyin’ Ted Cruz, lyin’ Ted.” 
 
 Also Friday, Trump announced he would skip the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. His opponents immediately pounced. 
 
 “He really doesn’t belong at a conservative gathering,” U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said. “Donald Trump is not a conservative.” 
 
 “Donald Trump started galloping to the center before the primary was over,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said. 
 
 The bickering was much the same Thursday night in the debate, that often devolved into a yelling match. Throughout the night, Cruz and Rubio used attack after attack to try to take down Trump. 
 
 “He’s trying to con people into giving them their vote, just like he conned these people into giving them their money,” Rubio said. 
 
 But despite their tries – Cruz and Rubio may have missed their chance. 
 
 “Last night, someone needed to land a knockout punch, and it didn’t even look like they came to the box,” Republican Political Strategist Rick Davis said. 
 
 No matter how bad his opponents say Trump will be as a nominee and a president, they still say they’ll support him if he wins. 
 
 On Friday, Rubio said the reason for that is simple. 
 
 “We as Republicans feel that Hillary Clinton would be a disaster to the country — that’s how bad she is,” Rubio said. “I would look at that as a reflection of how bad she is, not how good Donald Trump is.” 
 
 Even though Trump is the most likely GOP nominee, he does fare the worst against Clinton in a head-to-head matchup, polling at 42 percent against Clinton’s 45.4 percent. Rubio, Cruz and GOP candidate John Kasich were all projected to win over Clinton, according to a recent RealClearPolitics analysis. 
 
 Word surfaced earlier Friday of a plot to get U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) into the presidential race. 
 
 (TM and © Copyright 2016 CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2016 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.) ||||| NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidates are spending long days on the campaign trail and their nights in a succession of budget hotels, often in small towns. Not Donald Trump. 
 
 After nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan. 
 
 In November and December, Trump held six rallies in Iowa, visited a local production plant and held one town hall, flying home each night. His nearest rival for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz, has zigzagged around the state, holding around a dozen town halls and twice as many "meet-and-greet" sessions, and bedding down between stops in hotels. 
 
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 Trump’s determination to sleep at home every night raises eyebrows among election campaign veterans, who say it could cost him. Voters in Iowa and New Hampshire often want more personal attention; they feel they play a special role in choosing presidential nominees because their contests are held first. 
 
 Trump leads in polls in New Hampshire but he has slipped behind Cruz in Iowa. Cruz has done what U.S. presidential candidates typically do: He has made the state a virtual second home in the run-up to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus. 
 
 This week Cruz is crisscrossing the state in a bus, cruising through small hamlets with stops at a pizza place, coffee house and even a water park. 
 
 Trump's schedule this week, by contrast, illustrates his tendency to get out of town quickly. On Monday evening he addressed a crowd in Lowell, Massachusetts, and was due to address a rally in Claremont, New Hampshire, just a couple of hours north the following day. Instead of overnighting in a hotel, he flew home. On Tuesday Trump flew to Claremont and then returned to New York. 
 
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 In an interview, Trump said he needs time each morning in his Manhattan office to run his businesses, which include a string of high-end hotels and resorts. 
 
 “It works very well for me,” he said, adding that he can quickly get to and from campaign stops thanks to his private aircraft fleet. “For the smaller airports, the (Cessna) Citation X, and for the larger airports, the Boeing 757,” which has a big bed. 
 
 He also has a helicopter, which he used while traveling between his Palm Beach mansion and a rally in Hilton Head, South Carolina, on Dec. 30, where once again he did not stay the night. 
 
 “HOMEBODY” TRUMP 
 
 “Trump is a man who likes to be on the couch with a good cheeseburger and likes to watch TV - he’s a homebody,” said his friend and former adviser Roger Stone, who recently founded a pro-Trump Super PAC, a political group that can raise unlimited funds to advocate for Trump as long as it does not coordinate with his campaign. 
 
 "He likes being in his own bed, even if it means coming into Teterboro or LaGuardia after midnight," he added, referring to two airports Trump uses in the New York area. 
 
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 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as if he is sleeping while talking about his opponent Jeb Bush during a Trump for President campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina December 4, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake 
 
 Trump rejected Stone’s explanation. 
 
 While Trump breakfasts in his Manhattan quarters, with sweeping views of Central Park, his opponents are waking up in Holiday Inns or Courtyard Marriotts. 
 
 Cruz spent Monday night in a motel in Missouri Valley, Iowa, where vending machines sold items with long-past expiry dates. His campaign manager Jeff Roe fired off a series of bemused tweets about the state of the motel, lamenting the presence of “the long hair on the pillow” that he found in his room. 
 
 Strategists said Trump not only risks alienating potential supporters but also the political operatives in states that can help turn out the vote. 
 
 “Not everything in a presidential campaign can be accomplished with a speech or a rally,” said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, a grassroots conservative political group, and a former White House political director for President George W. Bush. The group has not endorsed a candidate. 
 
 “You attend a family event of a supporter in a key state: weddings, funerals, graduations, Christmas parties - these have an important psychological impact,” he said. 
 
 Trump said he has stayed in Iowa “numerous times,” but a campaign source who did not want to be identified said he remembered Trump staying overnight only once in Iowa and once in New Hampshire. 
 
 ON THE ROAD 
 
 That’s a far cry from candidates like New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has logged more hours in New Hampshire than any other Republican still in the race. Christie and others regularly hold meet-and-greets, attend local government meetings and find ways to make themselves approachable to voters ahead of the state’s Feb. 9 primary election. 
 
 In Iowa, where state residents will attend caucuses on Feb. 1, Cruz is in the middle of a week-long bus tour that will take him to 36 different counties. 
 
 Former Democratic candidate Chris Dodd took the practice to an extreme in 2008, when he went so far as to move his entire family to Iowa, enrolling his children in school there. He nonetheless lost to Barack Obama. 
 
 Trump sees it more as a numbers game. His rallies attract between 3,000 and 20,000 people each time he appears and are often broadcast on television. 
 
 “I have more people at one event than most candidates see in a month,” he said. 
 
 U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally in Burlington, Vermont January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Erin Siegal 
 
 Even so, Trump said he planned to do smaller events in the future and may even decide on some campaign stops that are veritable pilgrimages for his competitors. One such spot is the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, New Hampshire, where candidates are expected to stop by and greet customers. 
 
 “It’s a distinct possibility,” he said. 
 
 He also said he would begin making multi-day trips to early primary states like Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada, where he can choose to stay at his own hotel, the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas.
– A Donald Trump rally in Albany on Monday night involved a raucous crowd of more than 10,000, a lot of talk about "New York values," and at least one fight. Trump stopped speaking as protesters were ejected, saying "Send him back home to mom" in one case, the Albany Times Union reports. In another incident, a Trump supporter confronted a protester and shoved him in the face more than once before security took the protester away. "I'll snatch anybody up if they yell in my face over anything," the Trump fan told reporters after the rally. "I have my personal rights and my personal space." The protester has not been identified and police told NBC that no arrests were made at the rally. At the rally, Trump slammed the "rigged, disgusting, dirty" system in places like Colorado, where Ted Cruz won all the delegates over the weekend after, as Reuters puts it, outmaneuvering Trump "in a series of state meetings." It's a "crooked, crooked system" that leaves real voters without a voice, Trump said. He also attacked Cruz for his "New York values" comments earlier this year. "Nobody has values like us and the country loves New York," Trump said. Cruz, meanwhile, was campaigning in California, where he accused Trump of "whining" about the GOP contest being rigged, the AP reports. "As we know in the state of California, whine is something best served with cheese," Cruz told supporters in San Diego. (Two of Trump's children have discovered that they can't vote in New York's April 19 primary.)