It's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm campaign reporter Esma Khalid.

And I'm Ron Elving, Editor-Corespond.

All right, so we are here because we wanted to talk for just a few minutes about the weekend's

political news.

Donald Trump's campaign events were hounded by protesters all weekend.

On Friday night, he canceled a rally in Chicago after clashes broke out between Trump supporters

and protesters.

So Ron, what is going on?

We're moving into the next phase of what has been a largely angry campaign already.

On all sides, if you will, of the political debate in America.

We're hearing certainly from people who are Donald Trump supporters, who are a feeling

as though their First Amendment rights to free speech were suppressed by what happened

in Chicago on Friday night.

We're also hearing from a lot of people who have been insulted, perhaps, by Donald Trump

or have felt attacked by Donald Trump and have felt disrespected by his supporters.

And they're saying, well, what do you expect to have happen when you treat people the

way you do or when you tell your rally audience, get them out of here, get those protesters

out of here.

I wish we could still punch them in the face or go back to the days when protesters

went out on a stretcher.

Those kinds of statements obviously are provoking some people on the other side.

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