At a Saturday event in Dayton, Ohio, Donald Trump blamed Bernie Sanders supporters for the violence that forced the cancelation of his campaign rally in Chicago.
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They’re not angry people but they have anger at the stupidity of what’s happening in our country.
Following the cancelation announcement, fist fights broke out amongst Trump supporters and protestors.
A local spokesman for Trump’s campaign said the Secret Service had not been able to complete preparations in time for the Sunday afternoon event.
As Trump attempts to unify a fractured Republican Party ahead of Tuesday’s slate of winner-take-all primary elections, the confrontations between his legion of loyal supporters and protesters who accuse him of stoking racial hatred have become increasingly contentious, underscoring concerns about the divisive nature of his candidacy.
Kasich’s comments come during a news conference to address the violence that led Trump to cancel a rally in Chicago on Friday night. You know why. I mean in all fairness to Bernie, the reason there no Hillary people, they have no fervor.
“The only hope for this country is God and we have taken God out of the political debate, and we have taken him out of the public space, and I want to put him back in”, Graham said.
Trump ran into a vibrant community of student activists and civil- and immigrant-rights campaigners that has experience in organizing mass demonstrations and was energized by recent scandals over Chicago police shootings of young black men.
Many anti-Trump attendees had rushed onto the floor of the University of IL at Chicago Pavilion, jumping up and down with their arms up in the air after the event was called off.
The accusations come on a day when Trump refused to apologize for his rhetoric at his rallies, one of which was interrupted when a man tried to rush the stage.
Trump said he hadn’t wanted to cancel the event but did so over safety concerns.
Hundreds of demonstrators packed into an arena, breaking out into protest even before Trump had shown up.
Rubio and Kasich have previously committed to backing Trump should he win the Republican nomination, despite reservations about his qualifications. “These are not the people who made our country great”.
“Tonight’s rally will be postponed to another date”, read the Trump campaign’s brief statement. Trump asked of a crowd inside an airplane hangar in Dayton, Ohio, Saturday morning. “We want Trump!” and there were physical confrontations.
Trump asserted Saturday that the Chicago protest was a professionally staged “planned attack”.
At one point, almost 20 officers who had been manning barricades suddenly bolted for an intersection across a street bridge over a freeway – where protesters shouted at and jostled with police already there.
“In any campaign, responsibility starts at the top”, Cruz said.
Trump’s rivals criticized Trump’s rhetoric and language as predictably leading to violence. “That’s what happens in a democracy like ours”, Clinton said in St. Louis.
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And at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Texas on Saturday, President Obama, without mentioning Trump by name, counseled that “those who aspire to be our leaders should be trying to bring us together and not turning us against one another, to speak out against violence and reject efforts to spread fear or turn us against one another”.
