TAMPA, Fla. – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a campaign stop Monday in Tampa.
After a weekend of interruptions on the campaign trail the billionaire businessman continues to campaign before Tuesday's primaries in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri.
A canceled appearance Friday in Chicago started the weekend and a man rushed the stage during Trump's stop in Ohio.
According to a CNN/ORC poll Trump has a lead in Florida with 40 percent, Marco Rubio came in at 24 percent, Ted Cruz at 19 percent and John Kasich at 15 percent.
Trump also leads the GOP race in Ohio at 41 percent, Kasich at 35 percent, Cruz at 15 percent and Rubio at 7 percent.
But the front -runner has been criticized for the escalating violence at his campaign rallies.
"He has turned the most important election in a generation into a circus, into a complete fiasco and a carnival," Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."
Members of the GOP are not the only ones critical of the violence at the Trump events.
Trump accused supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for the protests at his event over the weekend.
Sanders denies the accusation.
"I would hope that my supporters would not disrupt meetings. To protest is one thing, to disrupt is something else," Sanders told Tapper.
Sanders said the GOP front-runner should carry the blame for the violence.
"Even his Republican colleagues make this point: His language, his intonation, when he talks about carrying people out in stretchers ... this is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you seek," he said.