Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Saturday he will file charges against those who disrupt his rallies after a man jumped a barricade and ran toward him at a campaign event in OH and protesters sought to interrupt his speech in Missouri.
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“We’ve had an interesting couple of days”, Trump said as he began speaking in Kansas City, according to the Kansas City Star.
Trump, who was able to finish this speech without incident after the brief interruption, said from the stage: “Thank you for the warning”.
“We’re going to be very competitive, “he said”.
Trump, who will be at a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday, cancelled the Chicago event on Friday after it turned chaotic, with scuffles breaking out between protesters and backers of the real estate magnate.
Trump has tried to shift attention away from the intense criticism that followed Friday’s harrowing scenes in Chicago, where he cancelled a scheduled rally amid sometimes violent confrontations among his supporters, protesters and authorities.
Chicago police, university police, Illinois State Police and federal authorities struggled for hours to keep order at the rally, where tensions between crowds of Trump supporters and protesters were high.
Earlier this week, video footage captured a white man punching an African-American protester as police led him out of a North Carolina rally.
Trump initially laughed it off but later in the day he said Dimassimo had ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).
2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders are to blame for the disruptions at his rallies, saying “many of these people come from Bernie”.
“Bernie’s People”, Trump repeatedly said in Cleveland, referring to several demonstrators before having them escorted out of the venue.
“For the life of me, I just don’t understand how they do that”, Mr. Earnest said. CBS News said reporter Sopan Deb, who has been covering the Trump campaign since last summer, was thrown to the ground and handcuffed.
Updated: A previous version of this story said former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be campaigning for Trump in The Villages, Florida, Monday.
In defending himself, Trump told Fox News people are angry about everything from stagnant wages to fewer jobs to insufficient care for military veterans. “The guy next to me got it. I don’t think he managed to run fast enough”.
If Trump wins Florida but loses OH, status quo would prevail, and the race would continue on an uncertain path. Trump would have slightly less than 50% of delegates, but he could jump above the threshold by winning the rest of the winner-take-all states. Someone threw a water bottle at him, Brown says, and another person put him in a headlock. Despite a the presence of the “Never Trump” movement within the Republican Party, candidates have been quick to say they will support the Republican nominee.
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It will mark Florida senator’s third win in the presidential race.
