Trump to visit Spokane

COEUR d’ALENE — A local source with connections to the Spokane Convention Center confirmed the Republican presumptive presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a rally in Spokane Saturday.

Details of the event are expected to be released this morning. No one at the convention center was available Thursday to officially confirm the rally has been scheduled.

A review of the convention center’s online calendar shows there is only one event scheduled there Saturday, a fitness expo from 6-9 p.m.

Trump’s official campaign schedule shows he will be in Eugene, Ore., on Friday, and the Seattle Times recently reported Trump stated he plans to visit three locations in Washington on Saturday. Those locations include Spokane, Vancouver and somewhere in the Puget Sound area, according the Times.

The Times reported Trump revealed his plan to visit the region to a group of cheering supporters in Vancouver over a cellphone speaker two weeks ago, telling them he’d like to visit May 7.

“I want to be there. I want to be there with you folks,” Trump told the group, which included his state campaign chairman, state Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver.

There are 44 delegates at stake in Washington’s GOP primary May 24, and Trump told supporters the state could prove crucial in his march to locking up the Republican nomination.

“I’ll tell you what, if we can win Washington, it’s going to be over, because we’re taking it as a neutral, which I hate to do. If we end up winning that, I think it’s going to be over,” Trump said. “If we can win Washington, we will win it all, and I will never forget you people.”