DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 race for president on the final weekend of campaigning before Monday's leadoff Iowa caucuses (all local times):
4:25 p.m.
Jeb Bush is showing no sign of going down quietly on the eve of Iowa's leadoff caucuses, despite falling behind in the polls.
The former Florida governor says Marco Rubio supporters should "stop whining" about attack ads from his allies.
Bush spoke to The Associated Press Sunday afternoon after a campaign appearance in Hiawatha, Iowa.
He says the Rubio attacks are "minor league baseball" compared to what Democrats will do to the Republican presidential nominee during the general election.
"If you can't handle that, then how you gonna deal with a unified Democratic Party that will go out to try to destroy you? And be president of the United States?" Bush told the AP. "This is a tough job. This isn't bean bag. Everybody's gotta get a grip."
Bush continued: "You don't think that the Republican nominee is gonnaget the bark scraped off him by the Clinton machine? This is minor league baseball, man."Donald Trump's closing pitch to Iowa caucus-goers is a family affair.
The GOP candidate's rarely-heard-from wife Melania has joined her husband at an afternoon rally after a visit to a local church.
She says her husband with be, "unbelievable. The best deal-maker, the best master negotiator."
Trump is also joined by his pregnant daughter Ivanka and her developer husband.
Trump says doctors advised Ivanka not to make the trip and joked abouther potentially giving birth here.
"Wouldn't it be great if she had the baby in Iowa?" he asks the crowd.
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3:40 p.m.
Bernie Sanders is urging his supporters to help him make history and send a message to those who back establishment politics.
Kicking off his final day of campaigning in Waterloo, Sanders says the Kicking off his final day of campaigning in Waterloo, Sanders says the nation will be looking at whether Iowa is prepared to move the nation away from establishment politics and economics. He says Monday night could be a "very historic night for this country. We can make history."
The self-described "democratic socialist" said the country would not make progress unless voters had the "courage" to confront challenges head-on.
"If you sweep the problems under the rug they ain't going to get better," he said.
Sanders is pushing back against arguments by Clinton and her supporters that she would be the most electable Democrat to take on Republicans in the fall. The Vermont senator says the "excitement and the energy is with our campaign" and it will help the party drive a large voter turnout in the fall.
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3:15 p.m.
Hundreds of people packed a fairground building in Iowa City to hear Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and a host of celebrity backers the day before the Iowa caucuses.Cruz says on Sunday that the stakes are too high for Iowa voters to make the wrong choice. He says "we can't get fooled again."
Cruz and his wife, Heidi, were joined by Cruz's father, Rafael, and by "Duck Dynasty" reality TV star Phil Robertson, conservative commentator Glenn Beck and Iowa Rep. Steve King.
Robertson says the country is mired in "depravity" and "perversion," but Cruz can turn it around because he trusts God and James Madison, the architect of the Constitution. Robertson says "That trumps Trump."
Cruz supporter Carlene Murphy, of Kalona, Iowa, says she thinks the caucuses will be tight, but that Cruz will prevail. She came to see him in Iowa City.
Murphy says, "I think we're going to pull through."
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2:44 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is criticizing a mailer rival Ted Cruz's campaign sent to voters that Iowa's secretary of state says misrepresents the law.Trump claims at a rally in Council Bluffs that Cruz is under investigation over a "voting violation" notice his campaign sent to caucus goers.
Trump says, "You're not allowed to do it and they're investigating him now."
"It is so dishonest. It is so dishonest," he adds.
In a statement released Saturday, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate says the mailers misrepresent Iowa election law and adds, "Accusing citizens of Iowa of a 'voting violation' based on Iowa caucus participation, or lack thereof, is false representation of an official act."
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