Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses his campaign supporters during a campaign rally at the Savannah Center March 13, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Rubio has given his supporters dispensation to vote for Kasich in OH as a way to keep delegates from Trump, who needs 1,237 total delegates to seal the nomination and avoid a floor fight at the GOP convention in July.
But Bill Schultz, 54, of Champaign, said he attended the rally in part to counter the increased visibility of anti-Trump demonstrators. Trump was referring to the incident in the morning when an individual tried to jump on to the stage and probably rush towards him to harm, before a battery of secret service agents got hold of him and cordoned off Trump.
Speaking on NBC’s “Today” Monday, Carson, who endorsed Trump last week, acknowledged that he might not use the same rhetoric that Trump uses at his rallies, but emphasized that Trump is a different person off-stage and should not be discounted.
These latest clashes come just a day after a Trump supporter was charged with assault after multiple videos showed him punching a protester at a campaign rally in North Carolina.
O’Connell noted Rubio – once regarded as the party’s most promising young conservative – suffered from not having a “natural base”, unlike Trump and Ted Cruz, and is likely to see donor funds dry up if he falters in Florida.
One of his opponents, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, called the escalating turmoil at Trump’s campaign stops “frightening and grotesque”. “We’re going to have an ugly scene here; we already have seen these ugly scenes”.
Trump said afterward: “Maybe he should have been roughed up”.
Ohio Governor John Kasich, campaigning in Ohio, didn’t mention Trump, but said there was no place in USA politics for a national leader to “prey on the fear of the people”.
The Sanders campaign said there was no evidence any of its staff was involved in organising the protests.
Sanders dismissed Trump’s assertion that the Vermont senator’s backers are responsible for the widespread protests.
“I don’t think our supporters are inciting”.
He and his rival Hillary Clinton also accused Mr Trump of encouraging supporters to beat up protesters and then offering to pay their legal costs.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to IL on Sunday for a stump speech at an airplane hangar in Bloomington before a far more receptive and calmer audience than the Chicago rally that was canceled Friday night.
“I was thinking that Donald Trump is a bully”.
Trump has proven to be a polarizing candidate, not only for the American electorate but also for the Republican establishment.
Following a series of violent and disruptive campaign rallies this weekend, Donald Trump is blaming Bernie Sanders.
“Florida is do or die for the Rubio campaign, but it looks like victory may have slipped from his grasp”, Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth poll, said.
“I’m going to do everything I can as president, if I’m so lucky as to be president, to really help people feel like the opportunities that are within their reach, again”, she said at the 8 Sisters Bakery.
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After sporadic interruptions from protesters at a rally in IL yesterday, Mr Trump shouted “send them back to Bernie!”
