Protesters removed after disrupting Trump rally in Texas – video

ABC News and Fox News report that President Donald Trump's Wednesday night rally in San Antonio for Senate nominee Ken Paxton was repeatedly disrupted by protesters, a sign of how contested Texas has become for Republicans this fall. Police led some demonstrators away. The outlets' tallies differ: one ABC News account counts at least half a dozen interruptions, another at least a dozen. Fox News adds that the crowd's chants drowned out the hecklers, and that Trump asserted many of them were paid by enemies of the country, then told any others to leave, according to The Guardian · ABC News.

ABC News also says a Trump supporter attacked one protester as that person tried to exit, and that Trump promised retired pitcher Roger Clemens the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott stayed away to attend a hospital dedication about 330 miles off, which Texas Democratic Party spokesperson Jacob Long criticized. Party officials have put more than $300 million into the state, where Democrat James Talarico has made the Senate race competitive. Trump did not mention a leaked recording of Paxton.

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