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A sensitive incident broke out on a highway in the US state of Texas over the weekend around a column of campaign vehicles belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Several vehicles belonging to supporters of US President Donald Trump tried to slow down a Democratic campaign bus and pull it off the road, Biden’s campaign team said Sunday.
The FBI launched the investigation, as announced by federal police on Sunday night (local time). “The San Antonio FBI has been informed of the incident and will investigate it,” said spokeswoman Michelle Lee. However, he did not want to go into details.
Video footage on social media showed multiple SUVs with Trump flags clustered around the bus on the San Antonio-Austin freeway and a car ramming the support vehicle behind the bus.
Neither Biden nor his runner-up Kamala Harris were in the vehicle. According to a report in the Texas Tribune newspaper, US House candidate and former Texas Senator Wendy Davis was in the car. All inmates were unharmed.
Trump shared a video of the incident on Saturday (local time) with the comment “I LOVE TEXAS!” On twitter. As a result, the Biden campaign canceled at least two of its events in Texas. Democrats accuse the president of encouraging his followers to try to intimidate.
Again the president speaks of “patriots”
At an event in Michigan, Trump poked fun at the Texas incident: “Did you see our people yesterday? They wanted to protect their bus!” In response to the FBI investigation, he also wrote on Sunday night (local time): “In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong.” He last used this term when many of his supporters in Portland, Oregon, sought to confront left-wing protesters.
Speaking of Sunday’s incident at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Biden described Trump’s approval of such actions as abnormal and divisive: “This has never happened before. At least we’ve never had a president who believes this is a good thing.”
According to polls, Biden and Trump are in an unexpected head-to-head race in Texas. Texas used to be a Republican stronghold.
