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Donald Trump interrupted 10 times: Sign of emerging public backlash?

Protestors stormed a rally in North Carolina, interrupting Donald Trump's speech 10 times. 

Donald Trump brought in a capacity crowd of nearly 8,000 at a rally in North Carolina Friday night and was interrupted 10 times in his 45-minute speech. But the interruptions weren鈥檛 out of praise: the protestors were angry.

They strategically stormed the Raleigh, N.C., venue carrying signs that read 鈥淪top the Hate, We Make America Great鈥� and 鈥淒ump Trump,鈥� while others chanted 鈥溾�澛�

Trump鈥檚 statements about US ethnic and religious minorities have, from the beginning of his presidential campaign, often been bluntly critical. He called undocumented immigrants 鈥渞apists and criminals鈥� and proposed that a wall be built between the US and Mexico, which greatly angered Latinos. 聽Recently, Trump called for a registry to track Muslims in the US and retweeted inaccurate crime statistics on how blacks murder the majority of whites and called the behavior of the Black Lives Matter protestors 鈥�.鈥�

Some suggest that Trump鈥檚 rhetoric sets a dangerous tone for the nation.

鈥�When the leading [candidate] for one of the parties talks in an un-American, racist way, it starts to become mainstream. Racism can never become mainstream,鈥� Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO told reporters at a recent breakfast hosted by 海角大神.

Trump鈥檚 views 鈥� which many suggest have encouraged other Republican candidates to speak more radically 鈥� have brought him success, however. He remains the top candidate among Republican voters, according to polls.聽

Much of Donald Trump鈥檚 campaign success has played on the 鈥減olitics of fear,鈥� followers who, according to The Atlantic, 鈥� and are largely what Walter Russell Mead calls 鈥楯acksonians.鈥欌��

America鈥檚 seventh President Andrew Jackson was known for his dogged isolationist policies. 聽"Jacksonians love leaders who mercilessly squash America鈥檚 enemies without getting too entangled overseas," writes Peter Beinhart in The Atlantic:

, Trump has responded to Americans鈥� fear of foreign threats by arguing that the real menace lies within. Since the Paris attacks, while the 鈥榮erious鈥� GOP contenders have proposed establishing no-fly zones and arming Kurdish rebels in Syria, Trump has focused on registering Muslims and closing mosques in the U.S. while insisting that he watched thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrate 9/11.鈥�

Trump鈥檚 ability to play into the politics of fear was confirmed after the Paris attacks, when support for him 鈥� and his strong anti-immigration stance on Syrian refugees 鈥� skyrocketed.聽

But some say that Friday鈥檚 rally in North Carolina may signal the beginning of a new campaign: a public backlash that has been largely visible only online is now manifesting in person.

The protestors were activists who planned the protest against Trump on Facebook. In total, they planned 10 separate interruptions in five-minute intervals, and strategically dispersed themselves all around the Dorton Arena at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Authorities removed about 25 protestors from the event, but no arrests were made.

CNN reported that聽Trump continued a recent effort to urge care with the handling of Friday night's protesters after an Alabama rally last month in which a Black Lives Matter protester was roughed up by the crowd.

"Make sure that young lady is in beautiful shape," Trump said after the first interruption.

But by the later interruptions, he urged security to deal with the individuals more quickly.

"Why don't you take them out the nearest door instead of walking them through the whole place?" he said after the eighth incident.

鈥淓xactly what we planned is exactly what we got, a lot of news organizations are talking about the protests, .鈥� Romain Stanley, one of the organizers, told CNN. 鈥淗e was going on about refugees and hate speech, and I just took the opportunity when the crowd died down to call him a coward.鈥�