Several hecklers were kicked out of President Trump’s Texas rally Wednesday night.
At least 10 people were removed from the venue by authorities or appeared to walk out after disrupting the rally, drawing boos from the crowd at San Antonio’s Freeman Coliseum as Mr. Trump jeered at protesters. It’s the president’s third trip to Texas in recent weeks to support Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who faces a tougher-than-expected fight against Democratic candidate James Talarico.
Less than 10 minutes into Mr. Trump’s speech, a person ran away from the stage screaming. At one point, a man in a red hat grabbed that person’s hair and appeared to get into a physical altercation, leading other rally attendees to separate the two. After the person left the premises, the president asked, “Is there anything that looks like a Trump rally?” »
“He’s going home to mom right now,” the president said. “What he doesn’t know is that his mother voted for Trump.”
Over the next hour, several other people were removed from the room by law enforcement or security as the crowd booed them. In some cases, Trump supporters and protesters were separated after physically intermingling.
At least one person was handcuffed before the police removed him.
The president mocked several of the participants who were kicked out, saying one of them “had to lose a lot of weight” and others were “really bad people.”
CBS News has contacted local authorities and the U.S. Secret Service for more information on the evictions.
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Mr. Trump remained on stage for more than an hour. He spent much of the event going after Talarico, a state lawmaker who is aiming to become the first Democrat to win a Texas statewide race in more than three decades. Most polls show Talarico either with a narrow edge or neck and neck with Paxton, a state attorney general with a polarizing record who frustrated other Republicans by ousting Sen. John Cornyn in a primary earlier this year.
Republicans sought to portray Talarico as too liberal for Texas, a theme Mr. Trump emphasized throughout the evening, criticizing Talarico for his record in the state Legislature. The president said that if Talarico won, he would turn Texas into a “dirty, failing, crime-ridden third world dump.”
Mr. Trump has also spent a lot of time on immigration, touting the precipitous drop in unauthorized border crossings in recent years. The issue has dominated Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign, but it has become more difficult for him as most voters become skeptical harsh enforcement tactics of his administration – especially Hispanic voterswhose turn toward Mr. Trump helped propel him to victory in 2024.
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