It was not immediately clear why the agents rushed the stage to surround Mr Trump, who appeared to jolt after hearing something coming from the audience behind him.
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If Trump sweeps Ohio, Florida and IL in Tuesday’s primaries he will be tough to stop.
Trump has amassed 459 of the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination, followed by Cruz with 360, Rubio with 152 and Kasich with 54, according to a tally compiled by the Associated Press.
“A vote for Ted Cruz or a vote for John Kasich in Florida is a vote for Donald Trump”, Mr Rubio said. “And if a voter concludes that voting for John Kasich gives us the best chance to stop Donald Trump there, I anticipate that’s what they’ll do”.
At an earlier event in Cincinnati, Kasich said that Trump’s antics might make it “difficult” to support him.
A Chicago rally organized by the Republican frontrunner had to be cancelled at the last minute in the face of mass protests, as clashes broke out between demonstrators and his supporters.
“My people aren’t like robots – you know, go do this, go do that”, Kasich said, adding that he’s not competing to win Florida.
“I still, at this moment, continue to intend to support the Republican nominee”, Rubio told reporters in Largo, Florida. But as a recent Fox News poll shows Kasich with a 5-point lead in Ohio, Trump is changing his approach. Billionaire businessman Donald Trump was third with 14 percent of the vote and Texas Sen. As politicians and political pundits alike wrestle to understand the business mogul and reality star’s meteoric rise, President Obama finally weighs in on the man he says was once “sure that I was born in Kenya”. And many big Northeastern, Midwestern, and West Coast states – states where a mainstream alternative to Trump and Cruz could catch on – haven’t yet voted.
“The best way to do it is to win an election here in Florida”.
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But John E. Sununu, a former USA senator from New Hampshire who co-chairs Kasich’s campaign, was willing to advocate for a Rubio win in Florida. “Math doesn’t tell the whole story in politics”, Kasich said.
