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ByJuliePaceand Catherine Lucey TheAssociatedPress PHILADELPHIA Donald Trump swept all five Re- publican primaries Tues- day, a commanding show- ing across the Northeast that keeps the Republican front-runner on his narrow path to the GOP nomina- tion. Hillary Clinton car- ried Democratic contests in Maryland and Delaware, the start of what her cam- paign hoped would be a strong night for the former secretary of state. Trump's victories came in Maryland, as well as Con- necticut, Delaware, Penn- sylvania and Rhode Island. His strong showing was a blow to rivals who are run- ning out of ways to stop the brash billionaire. Clinton aimed to emerge from Tuesday's contests on the brink of becoming the first woman nominated by a major party. She's already increasingly looking past ri- val Bernie Sanders, even as the Vermont senator vows to stay in the race until pri- mary voting ends in June. Sanders spent Tuesday campaigning in West Vir- ginia, where he drew sev- eral thousand people to a lively evening rally. He urged his supporters to rec- ognize that they are "pow- erful people if you choose to exercise that power." Still, there were some signs that Sanders' cam- paign was coming to grips with his difficult position. Top aide Tad Devine said that after Tuesday's results were known, "we'll decide what we're going to do go- ing forward." Trump's victories padded his delegate totals, yet the Republican contest remains chaotic. The businessman is the only candidate left in the three-person race who could possibly clinch the nomination through the regular voting process, yet he could still fall short of the 1,237 delegates he needs. GOP rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich are desper- ately trying to keep him from that magic number and push the race to a con- vention fight, where com- plicated rules would gov- ern the nominating process. The Texas senator and Ohio governor even took the rare step of announcing plans to coordinate in upcoming contests to try to minimize Trump's delegate totals. But that effort did little to stop Trump from a big showing in the Northeast. Cruz spent Tuesday in Indiana, which votes next week. Indiana is one of Cruz's last best chances to slow Trump, and Kasich's campaign is pulling out of the state to give him a bet- ter opportunity to do so. "Tonight this campaign moves back to more fa- vorable terrain," Cruz said during an evening rally in Knightstown, Indiana. His event was held at the "Hoo- sier gym," where some scenes were filmed for the 1986 movie, "Hoosiers," starring Gene Hackman as the coach of a small town Indiana basketball team that wins the state cham- pionship. Trump has railed against his rivals' coordination, panning it as "pathetic," and has also cast efforts to push the nomination fight to the convention as evi- dence of a rigged process that favors political insid- ers. Yet there's no doubt Trump is trying to lead a party deeply divided by his candidacy. In Pennsylvania, exit polls showed nearly 4 in 10 GOP voters said they would be excited by Trump becoming president, but the prospect of the real estate mogul in the White House scares a quarter of those who cast ballots in the state's Republican primary. In another potential general election warning sign for Republicans, 6 in 10 GOP voters in Pennsyl- vania said the Republican campaign has divided the party — a sharp contrast to the 7 in 10 Democratic voters in the state who said the race between Clinton and Sanders has energized their party. The exit polls were con- ducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks. With his three victories Tuesday, Trump will win at least half of the 118 dele- gates up for grabs in Tues- day's contests. And he has a chance to win a lot more. In Pennsylvania, Trump collected 17 delegates for winning the state. An ad- ditional 54 delegates are elected directly by voters — three in each congres- sional district. However, their names are listed on the ballot with no infor- mation about which presi- dential candidate they sup- port. ELECTION 2016 Trumppullsoffcleansweepof5Northeastprimaries JAKEDANNASTEVENS—THETIMES-TRIBUNEVIAAP Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, campaigns during a rally on Monday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. By Jonathan Drew and Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. Rhetorical skirmishes continued Tues- day in North Carolina over a law limiting protections for LGBT people, as Dem- ocrats criticized a Republi- can's plea to "keep our state straight." The criticism came a day after dueling demonstra- tions drew thousands of protesters for and against the law, ending with the ar- rests of 54 people voicing their opposition to the law in the Legislative Building. At a demonstration in support of the law earlier Monday, the state's Repub- lican nominee for attorney general, state Sen. Buck Newton, urged the crowd to "tell your friends and fam- ily who had to work today what this is all about and how hard we must fight to keep our state straight." The North Carolina Dem- ocratic Party issued a state- ment Tuesday calling the comments hateful and dis- criminatory toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgen- der people. They called for Newton, who shepherded the legislation through his chamber, to apologize. Newton told reporters on Tuesday that the phrase "keep our state straight" had nothing to do with sex- ual orientation. "It means keep men out of the ladies' room," he said. "I think the silly season is upon us and I think this whole effort by the Dem- ocratic Party is to be ex- pected," Newton said, add- ing, "I never mentioned gays or anyone. So I'm not quite sure how they made that leap. Maybe they're be- ing a little sensitive." North Carolina's top elected Republican lead- ers have said they don't plan to repeal the law, a stance likely to stoke fur- ther protests. Meanwhile, the leader of a national ad- vocacy group said Tuesday that transgender people used bathrooms aligned with their gender identity on Monday during protests in the Legislative Building and weren't arrested for it, despite the law's provisions. The law directs transgender people to use bathrooms in public buildings corre- sponding to the sex on their birth certificate, though it doesn't spell out an enforce- ment mechanism. Mara Keisling, director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said the stance of state Repub- lican leaders toward trans- gender bathroom access is "nonsense" considering that transgender people have often been able to go about their day without un- wanted attention in recent years. "Lots of times we aren't noticed, and other times we are noticed," she said by phone. But now they face a greater risk of being con- fronted in bathrooms be- cause of the law — and not just in North Carolina, she said. On Monday night, Keis- ling was among demonstra- tors arrested for refusing to leave a legislative lead- er's office when the build- ing closed, but the arrests weren't related to bath- room access. Eighteen en- tered a legislative leader's office and began chanting, while the rest were arrested a couple of hours later. Acting General Assembly Police Chief Martin Brock said all were charged with second-degree trespass- ing and cited for violating building rules or the fire code. One was also charged with resisting arrest. Detention records show the protesters were re- leased later that night or early Tuesday morning, and they have June court dates. Keisling said she and 17 others in the first wave of arrests were seated in a holding area of the county jail and separated by gender. She sat with the women, while a transgen- der man sat with the men. "Every officer I dealt with all day was businesslike and doing their job in ex- actly the way you'd expect them to do it," she said. The law blocks local and state protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people at their jobs and in public accom- modations. It also takes away people's ability to use state law to sue over work- place discrimination. North Carolina House Democrats filed legislation Monday to repeal the law, though a lack of Republican sponsors made its chances appear slim. Senate leader Phil Berger said Monday night that he wasn't swayed by the protesters: "I don't know that it'll change any- body's mind." LGBT LAW North Carolina Dems pan 'keep our state straight' comment CHUCK LIDDY — THE NEWS & OBSERVER Protesters rally against House Bill 2in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday. The Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. A Ken- tucky man has been ar- rested in North Carolina after witnesses say he uri- nated on the floor of an American Airlines flight from San Francisco to Char- lotte. A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police report states that 28-year-old Jordan Gardner was arrested Sunday morn- ing when the flight arrived. Multiple media outlets reported that witnesses said Gardner pulled down his pants, arched his back and urinated on the floor. A flight attendant was no- tified and sent him to the bathroom. The flight attendant used club soda to clean the mess. Gardner returned to his seat about 15 minutes later. Charlotte police and the FBI met the flight. WBTV reported the Lud- low, Kentucky, man faces a criminal complaint of de- struction of aircraft. He's to appear in federal court Thursday. It was not known if he has an attorney. CRIMINAL COMPLAINT Man charged with urinating on jet headed to North Carolina | NEWS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016 8 A