In an interview with The Associated Press, Barbour said Saturday that front-runner Donald Trump is best positioned to win a majority of the delegates ahead of the July convention, but added that there is “some chance that no one will win a majority in the primaries or caucuses”. Polls show Trump leading his rivals in Arizona, a border state where Trump’s hard-line on immigration has drawn support from Republican voters.
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He has also sought the Latino vote, aggressively challenging Arizona’s contentious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has endorsed Trump, in a speech for his harsh immigration tactics.
On ABC on Sunday, Trump questioned the focus on protesters being punched rather than the disruption of his events.
Donald Trump may not be getting the support he expected in New York City.
The protesters, surrounded by a strong police contingent, gathered at Columbus Circle next to Central Park to slam Trump’s rhetoric of division, hate and extremism, according to the organizers.
Donald Trump is showing the depth and degree of his paranoia, and the corporate media is letting him get away with vicious lies that are encouraging violence.
Arizona state Treasurer Jeff DeWit, a Republican who backs Trump, also criticised the protesters, asking the crowd if they had seen “the jerks standing outside the door” at the rally.
CBS reports that at least two of the protesters were arrested and a group of them tried to break through a police barrricade, only to be pushed back by police with pepper spray.
“This happened to be an African American man who was very very incensed that someone a protester would be wearing a Klu Klux Klan outfit”, Trump said on ABC News This Week.
Puente Arizona, a self-proclaimed human rights group, sent ABC15 video from the center of the protest. He was holding a sign with a Confederate flag over Trump’s face that read “Bad for America” while yelling, “Liar!”
In typical form, Trump had the protesters kicked out, but urged the crowd of about 1,000 people to be nice to them. They interrupted Trump as he spoke.
Trump is competing with Texas U.S. Sen. Trump’s excuse that his campaign events have very little violence doesn’t hold up because the other presidential campaigns have no violence.
“I’m saying this”, Trump said.
Trump supporter David Nelson, 62, had to walk about 4 miles (6.5 kilometers) to the rally because demonstrators had blocked the road.
Meanwhile, Ted Cruz and John Kasich battled over who has the best chance to stop Trump. “I apologise for the people that are coming in”.
Protesters blocking the road received a warning at 10:20 am in local time from law enforcement threatening to arrest them after issuing two more warnings, but Arizona Department of Public Safety Sgt. Ann FitzGerald told Arizona Central that most protesters cleared quickly without any arrests being necessary.
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Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Joaquin Enriquez told CNN that Shea Boulevard was the main road into the area and that traffic was blocked so badly that drivers risked driving into oncoming traffic in order to get around the protest. I mean we – we went all over – frankly, we went all over Arizona, uh, and we went to Tucson and we had so many people that wouldn’t allow people for the rally into the door.
