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ByStevePeoples TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON Under a fresh cloud of overseas vi- olence, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton fought to extend their delegate leads in primary voting across three Western states on Tuesday as the 2016 presi- dential contest turned into a clash of would-be com- manders in chief. The contests in Ari- zona, Utah and Idaho were largely an afterthought for much of the day as the world grappled with a new wave of bloody attacks in Europe. The Islamic State group claimed responsi- bility for a series of blasts in Brussels that left doz- ens dead and many more wounded. As voters cast ballots, the presidential candidates lashed out at each other's foreign policy prescrip- tions, showcasing sharp contrasts in confronting the threat of Islamic ex- tremism. Trump, the Republican front-runner, charged that the United States has "no choice" but to adopt his pro- posed temporary ban on Muslims entering the coun- try to prevent the spread of terrorism. He described as "eggheads" those who re- spect international law's ban on torture, the use of which he argued would have prevented the day's attacks. "We can be nice about it, and we can be politically correct about it, but we're being fools," Trump said in an interview on CNN. "We're going to have to be very strong, or we're not go- ing to have a country left." Clinton and Trump's Re- publican rivals, meanwhile, questioned the GOP front- runner's temperament and readiness to serve as com- mander in chief, and con- demned Trump's calls to diminish U.S. involvement with NATO. "I see the challenge ahead as one where we're bringing the world to- gether, where we're lead- ing the world against these terrorist networks," Clin- ton said Tuesday at a union hall in Everett, Washing- ton. "Some of my oppo- nents want to build walls and shut the world off. Well, you tell me, how high does the wall have to be to keep the Internet out?" Texas Sen. Ted Cruz seized on Trump's foreign policy inexperience while declaring that the U.S. is at war with the Islamic State group. "He doesn't have the min- imal knowledge one would expect from a staffer at the State Department, much less from the commander in chief," he told reporters. "The stakes are too high for learning on the job." Trump and Clinton both enjoyed overwhelming del- egate leads heading into Tuesday's contests. Ari- zona and Utah featured elections for both parties, while Idaho Democrats also held presidential caucuses. Democrat Bernie Sand- ers and Republicans Cruz and John Kasich hoped to reverse the sense of inevi- tability taking hold around both party front-runners. Anti-Trump Republicans are running out of time to prevent him from securing the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the nomination. With more than half of all delegates already awarded during the first seven weeks of primary voting, Trump's challengers' best — and per- haps only — hope lies with denying the front-runner a delegate majority and forc- ing a contested national convention in July. On the Democratic side, Clinton's delegate advan- tage is even greater than Trump's. The former sec- retary of state is coming off last week's five-state sweep of Sanders, who re- mains popular among his party's most liberal voters but needs to improve his performance if he expects to stay relevant. The Ver- mont senator, now trailing Clinton by more than 300 pledged delegates, has tar- geted Tuesday's races as the start of a comeback tour. Sanders condemned his GOP rivals' calls for stepped up surveillance of Muslims in the United States. "That would be uncon- stitutional — it would be wrong," he told reporters during an appearance in Flagstaff, Arizona. The underdogs in both parties had reason for op- timism Tuesday. Trump's brash tone has turned off some Republi- can voters in Utah, where preference polls suggest Cruz has a chance to claim more than 50 percent of the caucus vote — and with it, all 40 of Utah's delegates. Trump could earn some delegates should Cruz fail to exceed 50 percent, in which case the delegates would be awarded based on each candidate's vote total. Trump supporter Easton Brady, 19, of Provo, Utah, cheered the billionaire's brash style, even as he ac- knowledged Trump doesn't play as well in Utah as other parts of the country. "I think Trump says a lot of dumb things, but he's hu- man," Brady said. "I don't care." Trump appears to be in a stronger position in Ar- izona, which will award all of its 58 delegates to which- ever candidate wins the most votes. Kasich hopes to play spoiler in Utah, a state that prizes civility and religion. A week ago, the Ohio gov- ernor claimed a victory in his home state — his first and only win of the primary season. Kasich on Tuesday criticized his Republican opponents for targeting Muslims in their responses to the Brussels violence. He told reporters in Min- nesota he doesn't believe all Muslims in Minnesota or elsewhere are "somehow intent on trying to destroy our families." He said, "This is a time when you have to keep your cool." ELECTION 2016 TerrorismloomsascandidatescompeteinWesternstates ELAINETHOMPSON—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign event at the Boeing Machinists' union hall Tuesday in Everett, Wash. JOHN LOCHER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS People walk out of a Bernie Sanders campaign office on the day of the Utah Caucus on Tuesday in Salt Lake City. EVAN VUCCI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at the 2016American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference at the Verizon Center, on Monday in Washington. By Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire The Associated Press NEW YORK Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Tuesday that sur- veillance in Muslim neigh- borhoods in the U.S. must be intensified following the deadly bombings at Brus- sels, while rival Donald Trump suggested tortur- ing a suspect in last year's Paris attacks would have prevented the carnage. Echoing Trump's earlier statements, Cruz said the U.S. should stop the flow of refugees from countries where the Islamic State mil- itant group has a signifi- cant presence. The Islamic State took credit for the at- tacks at the Brussels airport and a subway station that killed dozens Tuesday and wounded many more. "We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighbor- hoods before they become radicalized," the Texas sen- ator said in a statement. Trump praised Cruz's plan as a "good idea" that he supports "100 percent" in an interview with CNN. The GOP front-runner also intensified his past calls for the U.S. to engage in harsher interrogation tech- niques, arguing that Bel- gium could have prevented the bombings had it tor- tured a suspect in last year's Paris attacks who was ar- rested last week. "Well, you know, he may be talking, but he'll talk a lot faster with the torture. ... Because he probably knew about it. I would be willing to bet that he knew about this bombing that took place today," Trump said. Trump, who has pro- posed a temporary ban on foreign Muslims entering the U.S., said "nothing's nice" about techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning. He added, "It's your minimal form of torture. We can't waterboard and they can chop off heads." Rep. Adam Schiff of Cal- ifornia, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said earlier Tuesday the Brussels plot was probably already un- derway before the suspect's arrest and that his appre- hension may have sped up its execution. When reminded that in- ternational law prohibits torture, Trump responded: "Well, I would say that the eggheads that came up with this international law should turn on their televi- sion and watch CNN right now, because I'm looking at scenes on CNN right now as I'm speaking to you that are absolutely atrocious." Speaking Tuesday after- noon in New York, Cruz praised the city's police de- partment's former program of conducting surveillance in Muslim neighborhoods, called for its reinstatement and said it could be a model for police departments na- tionwide. "New Yorkers want a safe and secure America," Cruz said. "New Yorkers saw first-hand the tragic conse- quences of radical Islamic terrorism." After the 9/11 attacks, the New York Police Depart- ment used its intelligence division to cultivate infor- mants and conduct surveil- lance in Muslim communi- ties. In a series of articles, The Associated Press re- vealed the intelligence di- vision had infiltrated doz- ens of mosques and Muslim student groups and inves- tigated hundreds. The pro- gram was disbanded amid complaints of religious and racial profiling. Trump said the city had had "the finest surveillance of the whole radical Islam situation that there is." He joined Cruz in blaming the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, for ending it. "He took it down and he knocked it out and that was a terrible mistake," said Trump, adding: "We can be nice about it and we can be politically correct about it, but we're being fools, OK?" The Council on Ameri- can-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned the calls for surveillance, saying it sends "an alarm- ing message to American- Muslims who increasingly fear for their future in this nation and to all Americans who value the Constitution and religious liberties." Democratic hopeful Ber- nie Sanders, campaigning in Arizona on Tuesday, said boosting national security and protecting civil rights must go hand-in-hand. He said he strongly disagrees with calls for heightened domestic surveillance of Muslims. "That would be uncon- stitutional — it would be wrong," Sanders said. Imam Abdisalam Adam, the board chair of Dar Al- Hijrah Riverside Islamic Center, a mosque in a So- mali neighborhood in Min- neapolis, said putting more scrutiny on Muslim com- munities is not a way to keep the country safe. "It's counterproductive," he said. "When you look at the American Muslim com- munity, it's very well inte- grated and very involved in civic unification ... It's a pa- triotic community that's in- volved in so many aspects of the American life." Asked about Cruz's com- ment, none of a half-dozen conservative House Repub- licans meeting with report- ers Tuesday criticized him and most spoke of the need to keep the country safe. "Nearly every neighbor- hood is patrolled. That's what local law enforcement does," said Rep. Tim Huels- kamp, R-Kan., who has en- dorsed Cruz. He added that he didn't know specifically what Cruz was referring to. "I believe in the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, every one of them, but we also know that in this country, we're going to have to step up se- curity in every neighbor- hood across America," said Rep. Matt Salmon, an Ari- zona Republican who has endorsed Cruz. POLITICS Cruz and Trump: Boost surveillance of Muslims a er Brussels JACQUELYN MARTIN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to the media about events in Brussels, Tuesday near the Capitol in Washington. Cruz said he would use the "full force and fury" of the U.S. military to defeat the Islamic State group. 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