Latino advocacy groups and others are joining in a growing call for "Saturday Night Live" to rescind its invitation to Republican front-runner Donald Trump to host the show in two weeks. The Times' Meredith Blake has more on why they want Trump off the show:

Sen. Ted Cruz joined winners of the "Shoot with Cruz" sweepstakes at Top Gun Handgun Training and Shooting Center in Texas on Monday.

Cruz, who has raised substantial amounts of cash in his quest for the GOP nomination, has pegged himself as a candidate willing to upset the party's establishment.

He also has an A-rating from the National Rifle Assn. -- important in a GOP primary.

Donald Trump has made billions of dollars off New York real-estate deals and it was all launched by a "small" $1 million loan.

Speaking at a townhall-style event in New Hampshire on Monday, Trump, who is leading the crowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls in the state with the first presidential primary, said he's battled through adversity.

"My whole life really has been a 'no' and I fought through it," Trump said Monday at the NBC News-sponsored event. "It has not been easy for me, it has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars."

His father, Fred, began the family real-estate business in New York in the late 1920s and Trump expanded it in the 1970s.

Trump noted that he paid the loan back with interest and that compared to the billions of dollars he's made over the years, "a million dollars isn't very much."

Other issues Trump addressed included the Syrian refugee crises and his biggest weaknesses.

On Syria, Trump said the United States should not accept refugees fleeing the war-torn country.

"We have to help these people, I'm OK with it, but they're not coming to the United States," he said.

The Obama administration has committed to accepting about 10,000 refugees over the next year.

And on his weaknesses?

"I have weaknesses, I really believe I have weaknesses. I don't like exposing them because if I expose them then the enemy knows."

Sen. Marco Rubio is headed back to California to raise money for his presidential bid in one of the GOP’s strongholds. The Florida Republican is scheduled to attend a reception and dinner at the Newport Beach home of Parvina and Jim Glidewell on Nov. 18.

According to an invitation obtained by The Times' Seema Mehta, members of the host committee are responsible for raising $20,000 each -- $2,700 per person and bringing in the remainder. Hosts are entitled to two tickets to the dinner, four tickets to a VIP photo reception and four tickets to the general reception. Tickets to the general reception are $1,000 each.

Several of the hosts have held fundraisers for Rubio previously. The host committee is the Glidewells, Joleen and David Bahnsen, Christy and John Clarey, Colleen and James Coffman, Michelle and David Horowitz, Valerie and Tracy Price, Manuel Ramirez and Wendy Baugh and Scott Baugh, former chairman of the Orange County Republican Party.

The Horowitz family hosted a June 30 fundraiser at their home, and that host committee was made up of the Clareys, Tracy and Valerie Price and the Blaughs, along with Coleen and David Blatt.

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