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Hundreds of police officers, Secret Service agents and private security guards in cars, on foot and on horseback blanketed the area around Donald Trump's campaign rally Saturday afternoon.
Dozens of protesters would be ejected from the event.
And that was the calmest rally in the past several days thrown by the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
Welcome to Trump's new normal.
After months spent goading protesters and appearing to encourage violence, Trump has seen his raucous rallies devolve over the past two weeks into events at which chaos is expected.
A heavy security presence is commonplace amid clashes between protesters and supporters.
CBS News journalist Sopan Deb, who has been embedded with the Trump campaign for months, says protests are nothing new -- but that Trump rallies have recently become more hostile.
Trump said he was "going to start pressing charges against all these people."
It would "to ruin the rest of their lives," he claimed, telling supporters if that happened, "we're not going to have any more protesters, folks."
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement that political leaders have a responsibility to ensure that the "discourse we engage in promotes the best of America."
Marco Rubio appeared to waver Saturday on his promise to back Trump.
"It's disturbing and I am sad, I am sad for this country," Rubio told reporters. "This country is supposed to be an example to the world."
When asked if he would still back the Republican nominee if it was Trump, Rubio responded: "I don't know."
Trump was mid-speech when a man, later identified by authorities as Thomas Dimassimo of Fairborn, Ohio, jumped a barricade and rushed at Trump. He was able to touch the stage before he was tackled by security officials.
Trump initially laughed it off, but later in the day, said Dimassimo had ties to ISIS. Experts who watched a video Trump tweeted as evidence called the allegation "utterly farcical."
Brandon Krapes was punched repeatedly after he held up his sign, which said, "Trump: Making America Racist Again." His son had a bruised cheek from a punch in the face he received while trying to help his father.
"The sheer amount of hatred in there is so blatant, and Trump does nothing to stop it," said Sean Khurana, a 23-year-old Cuyahoga Community College student, who is Indian-American. He said someone called him "ISIS" as he stood in line. "He provokes it."
Trump, meanwhile, celebrated a successful campaign day on Twitter.
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