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Voting underway in make-or-break test for White House hopefuls

– High tensions –

The clashes that erupted at Trump’s Friday rally in Chicago marked an escalation in tensions that have trailed the controversial candidate.

Protesters turned up at his rally in Hickory, North Carolina Monday, but this time, he patiently waited for their chants to subside.

“There’s no violence,” he said. “It’s a movement, it’s a love fest.”

He acknowledged there was “anger from all sides including from our side” but added: “We’re not angry people. We’re all good people. There’s anger at the incompetence.”

Nevertheless, Trump’s invective against immigrants, Muslims and Hispanics have become a staple of his campaign, drawing roars of approval from supporters but also increasingly aggressive protests.

On Saturday, a protester rushed the stage as Trump was winding up a speech near Dayton, Ohio.

“I was thinking that Donald Trump is a bully, and he is nothing more than that,” Thomas DiMassimo, a 22-year-old college student who was charged with disorderly conduct and inciting panic, told CNN.

– ‘Dangerous’ talk –

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Trump has rejected suggestions that his words have created a climate of violence, instead blaming Sanders supporters for sowing trouble — and threatening to respond by sending his own supporters to picket Sanders rallies.

The Vermont senator was blunt at a CNN Democratic town hall event: “Donald Trump is a pathological liar.”

Trump’s Republican rivals also seemed shaken by the ugly turn in a campaign that has for months endured mudslinging and name-calling.

Rubio — who like Kasich faces a do-or-die test Tuesday in his home state — called Trump’s language “dangerous.”
The real estate mogul took some final potshots on Twitter at Kasich, deriding him as “a disaster” for Ohio for favoring international trade agreements.

He also slammed Rubio for being “weak on illegal immigration” and having “the worst voting record” in the Senate.

“Vote Trump and end this madness!” he wrote.

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