The upscale Italian restaurant Fiola has hired security guards after protesters confronted Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife, Heidi, as they prepared to dine there.

“We are trying to run a restaurant that was besieged this week with the sort of vitriol that is the story of divided politics in America now,” the owners of Fiola, located in downtown Washington, D.C., said in an email to customers.

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