Donald Trump is confident he can knock rival Ted Cruz out of the Republican presidential race by winning Tuesday's primary in Indianapolis and recent polls shows that might just happen.
Both Trump and Cruz are hitting the campaign trail hard in Indiana, making appearances Sunday and several more planned for Monday, CNN reports.
Trump will hold two rallies the day ahead of the primary, in Carmel and South Bend while Cruz is holding five events, with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence joining him for at least two appearances.
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The campaigning comes as recent polling shows Trump with a double-digit advantage over his competition in the Hoosier State, thought to be the last stand for Cruz, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, to block the businessman's path to winning the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright and avoid a contested convention.
President Barack Obama, meanwhile, took aim at all the presidential candidates during his final White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington.
Trump ahead in Indiana
If Cruz's ability to stop Trump from reaching the 1,237 delegates it takes to clinch the Republican nomination hinges on Indiana, the latest polling is especially bad news for the Texas senator's campaign.
Trump has 49% support to Cruz's 34% and John Kasich's 13% in the Hoosier State, per an NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist survey released Sunday.
If the poll is right, tweeted conservative anti-Trump pundit Erick Erickson, "not only is the primary process over, the GOP is too."
He followed up: "South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, meanwhile, said on CBS' 'Face the Nation' that he's advising Cruz to continue even if he loses Indiana -- saying the party is in the midst of a 'civil war.'"
Trump was asked if he'd knock Cruz out by winning Indiana on "Fox News Sunday."
His answer: "Yes, it's over."
"Indiana is so important and we have to win it," Trump said later to a crowd of approximately 1,500 people packed into a theater later Sunday in Terre Haute, Indiana. "If we win Indiana, it's over."
One big challenge for Cruz: Conservative talk radio -- a powerful, unified force against Trump in Wisconsin -- isn't rallying to Cruz's side in Indiana.
"The audience is pretty damn smart, and they're not coming to me to tell them what to do," Tony Katz, a conservative talker who hosts WIBC's morning show and has interviewed Cruz several times in recent days, said.
Cruz is shifting his emphasis to California, and looking for a rationale to remain in the race even if he loses Indiana. On Saturday, he spent a day away from Indiana -- taking his announced running mate Carly Fiorina with him to California for the GOP convention there.
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