Trump On Protesters: 'So Bad For Our Country, You Have No Idea'

ST. LOUIS, MO — A group of protesters, including an African-American woman holding a sign reading "Not Your Lazy Black," was removed from a Donald Trump rally Friday in St. Louis as audience members booed or chanted "USA!"

"Isn't this better than listening to a long boring speech?" Trump asked. “You can hear that from the other candidates, they don’t say anything anyway.”

A team of at least five security guards struggled to remove the protesters.

“Part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is that nobody wants to hurt each other anymore,” Trump said.

On Wednesday, a black protester at a rally was sucker-punched by a Trump supporter. The assailant, 78-year-old John McGray, spoke to Inside Edition at the event, saying, “Next time, we might have to kill him.”

Trump is leading in national polls with 36 percent favoring him, according to Real Clear Politics poll averages, and he leads in the delegate count, as well, with 459 of the 1,237 needed to win the nomination.

“In the old days, they didn’t come back, I can tell you that," Trump said after a protester attempted to return to the rally. "They were gone. They were taken out. They were gone.”

Trump is leading polls in both Florida (66 delegates) and Ohio (99 delegates) ahead of the primary election in both states on Tuesday, March 15.

The Republican party has become more aggressive in recent days to address the growing likelihood that Trump will gain the delegates needed to win the nomination. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign made the case Friday that Ohio Gov. John Kasich is the GOP's best bet to stop Donald Trump in Ohio.

Trump is ahead in Ohio with 36.5 percent of the vote compared to 34 percent for Kasich, according to the latest Real Clear Politics poll average.

“It would be so nice, it would be so nice. I won’t say what's on my mind,” Trump said on Friday as the protesters were removed. “I won’t say it, I refuse to say it. I’m a nice person, I refuse to say it.”