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[color=rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.85)]Joe Biden’s presidential campaign canceled a Friday event in Austin, Texas, after harassment from a pro-Trump contingent. [color=rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.85)]Texas has emerged as a battleground state in Tuesday’s presidential election, with polls showing the typically Republican stronghold now only marginally favoring President Donald Trump. The Biden campaign scheduled a Friday event in the state, in a bid to drum up last-minute support.
[color=rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.85)]But when the Biden campaign bus drove to Austin, it was greeted by a blockade of pro-Trump demonstrators, leading to what one Texas House representative described as an escalation “well beyond safe limits.” [color=rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.85)]The cancelation comes amid national anxiety about voter intimidation, a tactic the Trump campaign has implicitly endorsed. [color=rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.85)]Historian Dr. Eric Cervini was driving to help with the Biden campaign stop when he filmed a line of pickup trucks along the highway, many of them flying Trump flags. The drivers were “waiting to ambush the Biden/Harris campaign bus as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin,” Cervini tweeted. [color=rgba(2, 20, 31, 0.85)]“These Trump supporters, many of whom were armed, surrounded the bus on the interstate and attempted to drive it off the road,” he alleged. “They outnumbered police 50-1, and they ended up hitting a staffer’s car.”
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