US President Barack Obama has warned presidential candidates to avoid fueling tensions through “insults and incendiary language,” a day after violence erupted in the rally of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
“What the folks who are running for office should be focused on is how we can make it even better — not insults and schoolyard taunts and manufacturing facts, not divisiveness along the lines of race and faith, certainly not violence against other Americans,” Obama said on Saturday.
Trump had to cancel a Chicago rally at the last minute on Friday, when mass protests turned into clashes between demonstrators and his supporters.
Clashes erupted when Trump’s campaign managers asked thousands of his supporters at the University of Illinois to leave the arena due to security concerns.
The angry rally-goers gathered inside and outside the arena and then confronted several hundred anti-Trump protesters, blaming them for the cancellation. Five…