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Post by the Scribe on Nov 1, 2020 17:06:17 GMT
Shocking! Trump Supporters Try to Run Biden Campaign Bus Off the Road5,940 views•Nov 1, 2020
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The Biden camp cancelled an event in Austin after Trump supporters surrounded a campaign bus on a Texas highway.
The group of trucks tried to slow the vehicle down and run it off the road, before staff called 911.
CBS News reported that a group of the same 12 cars has been following the bus all around the country.
This comes as polls show a close presidential race in Texas, with President Donald Trump only slightly ahead of his opponent Joe Biden.
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Trucks with Trump signs and flags surrounded a Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway on Friday and attempted to slow the vehicle down and run it off the road, the Biden campaign said on Saturday. Several video clips posted on social media by both Biden and Trump supporters showed the trucks surrounding the bus. The trucks then tried to slow the bus down and run it off the road before staff called 911, according to the Biden campaign. The president himself appeared to endorse the behavior of his supporters, tweeting a video of the incident on Saturday evening along with the comment “I LOVE TEXAS!”“They’re literally escorting him out of town,” one man says, laughing as he narrates one clip of the incident shared by Trump supporters. Some of the Trump supporters surrounding the Biden campaign bus were armed, according to Democratic state representative Rafael Anchía and other observers.
While vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris was campaigning in Texas that day, she not on the bus, a spokesman for a state Democratic representative confirmed. The incident happened on the I-35 highway in Texas as the bus was traveling from San Antonio to Austin, the Biden campaign said, adding that local law enforcement responded to the campaign’s calls and assisted the bus in reaching its destination. The campaign did not identify the law enforcement agency. A group of the same 12 cars has been following the Biden bus all over the country, CBS News Austin reported, citing Texas Democrats. Texas state Democrats also said they cancelled a campaign event on Friday evening for “public safety and security reasons.”A Democratic campaign event scheduled for Friday evening in Pflugerville was cancelled due to security concerns related to the cars following the Biden bus, Sheryl Cole, a Democratic state representative, tweeted on Friday.“Unfortunately, Pro-Trump Protesters have escalated well beyond safe limits,” she wrote.
The decision to cancel the Pflugerville event came after Democrats received reports in the late afternoon that there had been some kind of collision between a pro-Trump vehicle and another vehicle on I-35, André Treiber, a spokesperson for Cole, told the Guardian. The details of the incident on the highway are still not clear, Treiber said, including whether the collision turned out to be “an accident or an escalation”.“When you have two hours to make the call, you make the safe call,” Treiber said. “We wanted to make sure everyone was safe.”An event with Democratic politicians in Austin was also cancelled on Friday and law enforcement were present to ensure staff could leave the bus safely, the Biden campaign said. When the Biden-Harris bus stopped briefly in Austin earlier on Friday, Trump supporters heckled and faced off with Democrats, with Trump supporters calling Biden a “Chinese communist”, CBS Austin reported. The cars following the bus include a pro-Trump hearse emblazoned with the slogan, “Vote like your life depends on it,” according to
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 1, 2020 17:10:01 GMT
Biden Campaign Bus Surrounded By Trump Losers On Texas Highway
7,548 views•Oct 31, 2020
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Trump fans in Texas followed the Joe Biden tour bus forcing them to cancel a campaign event over safety concerns.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 1, 2020 17:12:01 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 2, 2020 2:23:36 GMT
FBI probing Trump caravan confrontation with Biden campaign bus in Texaswww.yahoo.com/news/fbi-probing-trump-caravan-confrontation-011054281.html
Sun, November 1, 2020, 6:10 PM MST
By Steve Gorman
(Reuters) - The FBI said on Sunday it was investigating an incident in which a convoy of vehicles flying flags in support of President Donald Trump's re-election bid surrounded a bus carrying campaign staff for Democratic challenger Joe Biden on a Texas highway.
Friday's incident - captured on video that was retweeted by Trump on Saturday with the message, "I LOVE TEXAS!" - prompted the Biden campaign to cancel at least two of its Texas events as Democrats accused the president of encouraging supporters to engage in acts of intimidation.
Video footage showed a swarm of pickup trucks and SUVs bearing pro-Trump flags surrounding the Biden campaign bus as it traveled north along Interstate 35 between San Antonio and Austin.
The Biden campaign said the Trump caravan tried to force the bus to slow down and to run it off the road.
One video clip aired on CNN showed a Trump-flagged pickup swerve into the side of another vehicle traveling just behind the bus. The Texas Tribune newspaper reported that the sideswiped vehicle was being driven by a Biden campaign staffer.
According to the Biden campaign, staff aboard the bus called emergency-911 to report the incident, and local law enforcement responded to the calls and assisted the bus in reaching its destination.
"FBI San Antonio is aware of the incident and investigating," special agent Michelle Lee, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Antonio, told Reuters in an email. "No further information is available at this time."
Trump took to Twitter on Sunday night to criticize the FBI investigation of his supporters, writing: "In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong."
During a campaign stop in Michigan earlier in the day, Trump said: "Did you see our people yesterday? They were protecting his bus."
Speaking about the incident on the campaign trail on Sunday in Philadelphia, Biden said: "We've never had anything like this. At least we've never had a president who thinks it's a good thing."
Neither Biden nor his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, was aboard the bus. The Texas Tribune reported that its passengers included Democratic U.S. House of Representatives candidate and former Texas state Senator Wendy Davis.
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The highway confrontation came as polls showed an unexpectedly tight race between Biden and Trump in Texas, which has long been a Republican stronghold.
"Rather than engage in productive conversation about the drastically different visions that Joe Biden and Donald Trump have for our country, Trump supporters in Texas instead decided to put our staff, surrogates, supporters and others in harm's way," Biden's Texas campaign spokesman, Tariq Thowfeek, said in a statement. "We'll see you on November 3rd."
Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West, in a statement, dismissed media reports of the incident as "more fake news and propaganda," adding: "Prepare to lose ... stop bothering me."
Texas was not the only place where "Trump trains" of supporters forming vehicle convoys have caused consternation. Video footage on social media on Sunday showed vehicles flying pro-Trump flags blocking traffic on the Whitestone Bridge over the East River in New York City's Bronx borough.
Local media reported similar Sunday traffic blockades on the express lanes of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and the Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River linking New York's Westchester and Rockland counties.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Additional reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt in Philadelphia and Steve Holland in Washington, Michigan; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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