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ByStevePeoplesand Will Weissert The Associated Press BORDEN, IND. Declaring the Republican presiden- tial contest at "a fork in the road," Ted Cruz and John Kasich defended their ex- traordinary new alliance on Monday as the party's last, best chance to stop Donald Trump, even as the New York billionaire surged to- ward another big delegate haul. Trump, the Republican front-runner, lashed out at what he called collusion by desperate rivals, intensify- ing his attacks on the GOP presidential nomination system on the eve of Tues- day's round of primary elec- tions in the Northeast. "If you collude in busi- ness, or if you collude in the stock market, they put you in jail," Trump said as he campaigned in Rhode Island.. "But in politics, be- cause it's a rigged system, because it's a corrupt enter- prise, in politics you're al- lowed to collude." "It shows how pathetic they are," he said of his Re- publican rivals. Connecticut, Pennsylva- nia, Delaware and Mary- land hold primaries Tues- day along with Rhode Is- land. Cruz, a Texas senator, and Kasich, the Ohio gov- ernor, announced the terms of an unprecedented agree- ment late Sunday night to coordinate primary strat- egies in three of the 15 re- maining primary states. Kasich will step back in the May 3 Indiana contest to let Cruz bid without in- terference for voters who don't like Trump. Cruz will do the same for Kasich in subsequent contests in Or- egon and New Mexico. The arrangement does not address Tuesday's pri- maries, where Trump is expected to add to his al- ready hefty delegate lead. Yet the shift offers increas- ingly desperate Trump foes a glimmer of hope in their long and frustrating fight to keep him from amass- ing enough delegates to seal his nomination and avoid a contested national conven- tion in July. Ignoring the Northeast on Monday, Cruz insisted, "We are at a fundamental fork in the road," as he cam- paigned in Indiana. "It is big news today that John Kasich has decided to pull out of Indiana to give us a head-to-head contest with Donald Trump," the fiery conservative told re- porters. "That is good for the men and women of Indi- ana. It's good for the coun- try to have a clear and di- rect choice." The plan carries risks — especially as Trump bashes a "rigged" nomina- tion system. Some would- be Cruz supporters in In- diana agreed with Trump's criticism. "That's kind of sneaky," said Joe Conder, a 75-year- old retired civil engineer from Scottsville, who is de- ciding between Cruz and Trump. "It's more about politics than getting things done." Trump is the only Repub- lican candidate who can clinch the GOP presiden- tial nomination before his party's national convention. Yet his path is narrow. The front-runner needs to win at least four of the five Northeastern states on Tuesday. He enters the day with 845 delegates, 392 short of the 1,237 needed to represent his party in the general election in No- vember. Eliminated from reach- ing that total in the prima- ries, Cruz and Kasich can only hope to block Trump from reaching a majority — and a first-round con- vention victory — and thus force a contested conven- tion where delegates could select a different nominee. POLITICS Anti-Trumppactunites his rivals on primary eve WILFREDOLEE—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich, right, speaks as Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens, during a Republican presidential debate sponsored by CNN, By Susan Haigh and Catherine Lucey The Associated Press HARTFORD, CONN. Bernie Sanders' campaign chief is vowing his candidate will stay in the Democratic race until the summer conven- tion even as Hillary Clin- ton looks to lock down her commanding position for the party's nomination with a strong performance in a five-state round of contests Tuesday. Clinton has the chance of a clean sweep or at least multiple victories Tuesday that would probably fore- close Sanders' already narrow path to the nom- ination. But the Vermont senator's campaign man- ager, Jeff Weaver, said the millions of dollars flowing to Sanders and the bois- terous rallies show that his "supporters will stand with us all the way to the end." Asked whether he ex- pects a contested national Democratic convention, Weaver told reporters in Connecticut, "Absolutely, 100 percent." Weaver said: "This is a powerful move- ment he's built and we're going to take it to the con- vention." Both Democrats spent the day before the Connect- icut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island contests campaign- ing on the East Coast. Clinton looked beyond her rivalry with Sanders and went after Republican front-runner Donald Trump as a man out of touch on wages, climate change, na- tional security and the lives of everyday people. "Come out of those tow- ers named after yourself and actually talk and lis- ten to people," Clinton told a Delaware crowd, as if talking to him. "Don't just fly that big jet in and land it and go make a big speech and insult everybody you can think of and then go back in on that big jet and go back to your coun- try club house in Florida or your penthouse in New York." She was addressing more than 900 people in a Wilmington theater. At a Hartford rally with more than 1,800 people, Sanders drew distinctions with Clinton on the min- imum wage, his call for a carbon tax to address cli- mate change, fracking and more. "We cannot afford to poison our water," he said. "Secretary Clinton does not agree. In fact, as secretary of state she pushed frack- ing on countries all over the world." Sanders said he would phase out fracking as president. Sanders moved on to a rally at a field house on the University of Pittsburgh campus, where he told a crowd of more than 1,000 that young and poorer peo- ple need to vote in higher numbers if anything is to change. Tuesday's contests of- fer 384 delegates, who will be divided proportionally based on the outcome. Af- ter her New York victory, Clinton has a lead of more than 200 delegates won in primaries and caucuses. Including superdelegates, Clinton's lead stands at 1,944 to 1,192 for Sanders, according to an Associated Press count. That means she has 82 percent of the 2,383 delegates needed to win the nomination. POLITICS Sanders looks to press on with his campaign all the way to the convention KEITH SRAKOCIC — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., arrives for a campaign rally at Fitzgerald Fieldhouse on the University of Pittsburgh campus on Monday in Pittsburgh. JACOB BYK — THE MARSHFIELD NEWS-HERALD Nikita Deep, 16, embraces a family friend at Antigo United Methodist Church following a morning service Sunday in Antigo, Wis. By Greg Moore The Associated Press ANTIGO, WIS. Wiscon- sin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday called for a dis- cussion on how to deal with bullying in schools after friends of a gunman who wounded two peo- ple outside a high school prom said the 18-year-old had been bullied. Authorities have not revealed a motive for the shooting outside Antigo High School in northern Wisconsin and declined to comment Monday on whether bullying may have been a factor. Police fatally shot former student Jakob E. 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