WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential election (all times local):

Updated 10:15 a.m.: Clinton maintains delegate lead

Hillary Clinton is closing in on collecting three-quarters of the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.

Bernie Sanders netted more than a dozen delegates after splitting the latest contests with Clinton. But he still trails significantly.

Three states held Democratic contests with a total of 131 delegates at stake.

Sanders picked up at least 67, having won big in Idaho and Utah.

Clinton will gain at least 51 after a victory in Arizona.

Thirteen delegates remain to be allocated from Tuesday, pending final vote tallies.

Still, Clinton continues to sustain a big lead overall.

Based on primaries and caucuses to date, she leads Sanders 1,214 to 911.

Clinton’s lead is even bigger when including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate they wish.

She now has 1,681, or 71 percent of the number needed to clinch the nomination. Sanders has 937.

Updated 10 a.m.: Kasich fails to win any delegates

Donald Trump took the top prize in the latest Republican presidential races: all 58 delegates in Arizona’s primary.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won big in Utah, and he’ll get all 40 of the state’s delegates to the Republican National Convention. But he has a very limited path to clinch the nomination before the party’s convention this summer.

The third contender still fighting for the nomination, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, was shut out for the night.

Here’s the latest AP delegate count:

• Trump: 739
• Cruz: 465
• Kasich: 143

Needed to win the nomination: 1,237

Updated 9:45 a.m.: Club for Growth endorses Cruz

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has won the endorsement of the political arm of the Club for Growth. The conservative group has spent millions in television ads to stop Donald Trump.

Club for Growth President David McIntosh says Cruz is the best free-market, limited-government candidate in the presidential race.

McIntosh says there’s a “vast gulf between the two leading Republican candidates on matters of economic liberty.” Cruz would shrink the federal government, McIntosh says, while Trump “would seek to remake government in his desired image.”

Former GOP candidate Jeb Bush also is backing Cruz.

But Trump’s substantial lead in delegates will be hard for the Texas senator to catch in the remaining primaries.

Updated 7:32 a.m.: Cruz tries to entice Kasich to drop out of race

Ted Cruz is suggesting he’d find a place for Republican rival John Kasich in his future administration if Kasich agrees to drop out of the presidential race and supports him.

Cruz noted that it’s mathematically impossible for Kasich to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination. So the only role Kasich is playing now is that of a “spoiler” by taking votes that could have gone to Cruz. And that is only serving to help front-runner Donald Trump, Cruz says.

In an interview Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Cruz said of Kasich: “I think he’d be a tremendous addition to an administration.”

Cruz also praised his latest endorsement from Jeb Bush, saying it proved his candidacy has drawn broad support among Republicans.

Updated 7:10 a.m.: Jeb Bush says he’s endorsing Ted Cruz for president.

Bush tweeted Wednesday that “Ted is a consistent, principled conservative who has shown he can unite the party.”

He added on his Facebook page that Republicans “must overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena” or risk losing to Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump get closer to nominations 

By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press

THE LINEUP:

• Republican and Democratic primaries in Arizona. Donald Trump’s victory gave him all 58 delegates. Hillary Clinton stood to win at least 40 of the 75 delegates up for grabs. Bernie Sanders was picking up at least 16.
• Republican and Democratic caucuses in Utah. Ted Cruz won more than 50 percent support, giving him all 40 delegates. Sanders will pick up at least 18 delegates in Utah while Clinton will receive at least 5. Nine Republican delegates are up for grabs in American Samoa.
• With 23 delegates at stake in Idaho’s Democratic caucuses, Sanders was on pace to win 17 delegates while Clinton would get at least 5. Idaho Republicans handed Cruz a strong victory over Trump on March 11.

DELEGATE SCORECARD

For Tuesday night, Sanders stands to win at least 57 delegates to Clinton’s 51. Less than two dozen delegates remain to be allocated:

• Republicans: Trump, 739; Cruz, 465; John Kasich, 143. Needed to win: 1,237.
• Democrats: Clinton, 1,214; Sanders, 901. Needed to win: 2,383.
• Democrats with pledged superdelegates: Clinton, 1,681; Sanders, 927.

VOTERS SAY…

“She’s the only one who’s been out here trying to make a difference.” — Marie Howard, 57, of Tonalea, Arizona, on why she’s backing Clinton. Howard and her family were among thousands of Navajos who were moved off Hopi land in a bitter dispute before settling in an area of the Navajo Nation. Clinton visited long before she became a presidential candidate.

“You don’t hear anyone mention the Natives. All these different candidates say they’re going to do this or that for certain people, the Hispanics, the whites, that’s the sad part.” — Longtime Republican Lorraine Maloney, 60, of Cameron, Arizona, who voted for Cruz at a polling site on the Navajo Nation where gusty winds sent dust swirling and rocked vehicles.

ARIZONA

Trump’s tough immigration message rattles many Americans, but in Arizona it sits comfortably in the saddle for a lot of people. Trump won a comfortable victory in a contest in which he had been favored.

He campaigned in the state flanked by two other hard-liners on the issue, ex-Gov. Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Trump’s rallies were again raw, with obscenity-spitting protesters, angry supporters, bottles and insults thrown by demonstrators at the attendees and the kicking and punching of a protester by a man arrested at the scene.

The state tested Clinton’s appeal with Latinos in the Southwest, who appeared to favor Sanders in Nevada. She won the 2008 Arizona primary against Barack Obama and repeated her feat eight years later.

UTAH

Cruz made a strong push and was able to win majority support and take all the delegates. It was a tougher bar with Kasich in the mix. Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee and a leading Trump critic, used his influence with fellow Mormons and others in Utah to nudge voters toward Cruz, saying: “A vote for John Kasich is a vote for Donald Trump.”

Kasich, the Ohio governor, has been a leading voice for civility in the race, which is not to say his campaign is pure. In an online ad, he falsely implies that Romney backed him in Utah.

President Barack Obama defeated Clinton in 2008, and Sanders was poised to win the state by a wider margin.

IDAHO

Sanders had plenty of help in Idaho: Thousands of supporters at a rally Monday, no campaign visits by Clinton, a caucus system that plays to his strengths, a largely white population and an election open to anyone, not just Democrats. Obama defeated Clinton in a landslide in 2008 and Sanders won in similar fashion.

A REFRESHER

Clinton won all five races a week ago, almost doubling Sanders’ delegate haul in Florida in the process.

Trump won four of six races, taking all 99 delegates in Florida, scoring a strong victory in Illinois, edging out Cruz in North Carolina and taking the small prize in the Northern Mariana Islands. Missouri remains undecided.

NEXT UP

Democratic races Saturday in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington.

Both parties hold contests April 5 in Wisconsin; in mid-April the campaign swings to big states in the Northeast.

Associated Press writers Ken Thomas in Washington and Felicia Fonseca contributed to this report from Cameron, Arizona.

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