A campaign bus for Joe Biden traveling on Friday from San Antonio to Austin, Texas, was surrounded by multiple vehicles with Trump signs that attempted to slow down the bus and run it off the road, a Biden campaign official tells CNN.
According to a source familiar with the incident, the vehicles were a "Trump Train group."
These groups are known in parts of the state and organize events that involve their cars with flags and Trump paraphernalia and drive around to show support for the President.
The group began yelling profanities and obscenities and then blockaded the entire Biden entourage.
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At one point they slowed the tour bus to roughly 30 km/h on Interstate 35, the campaign official said.
The vehicles slowed down to try to stop the bus in the middle of the highway.
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The source said there were nearly 100 vehicles around the campaign bus.
Biden staffers were rattled by the event, the source said, though no one was hurt.
Neither Mr Biden nor his running mate, California Sen Kamala Harris, were on the bus.
Staffers on the bus called 911, which eventually led to local law enforcement assisting the bus to its destination.
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The Biden campaign, out of what was described as an abundance of caution, ended up canceling an event scheduled for later that day in Austin, the aide said.
Texas State Rep. Rafael AnchÃa told CNN's Ed Lavandera that Wendy Davis was on the bus.
Davis is a former state senator who is challenging Rep Chip Roy for the Texas Hill Country area congressional seat.
"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 today instead decided to put our staff, surrogates, supporters, and others in harm's way," Biden campaign Texas communications director Tariq Thowfeek told CNN.
"Our supporters will continue to organize their communities for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Democrats up and down the ballot, and to the Texans who disrupted our events today: We'll see you on November 3rd,"
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is making his final stand on the "blue wall" that President Donald Trump toppled four years ago.
The Democratic presidential nominee is spending Sunday campaigning in Philadelphia. He'll speak early in the afternoon at a "Souls to the Polls" event aimed at getting Black church attendees to vote, and then hold a drive-in rally in the evening.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1322688553650827264?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwIt comes after he spent Saturday in Michigan campaigning with former President Barack Obama, and Friday in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa - visiting a region that Hillary Clinton's campaign was accused of ignoring, only to watch several states once considered reliably Democratic slip away in Election Night stunners four year ago.
Mr Biden's decision to focus his final days of campaigning on northern battlegrounds showed that - while polls show him with narrow leads in other battleground states across the Sun Belt - his campaign believes winning back enough White, working-class voters to rebuild the "blue wall" of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin represents his clearest path to 270 electoral votes.
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1322621879857852416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"It's time for Donald Trump to pack his bags and go home," Mr Biden said on Saturday night in Detroit.
CNN polls released on Saturday showed Biden with a 52% to 44% lead in Wisconsin, one of the nation's leading hot spots in the coronavirus pandemic as cases spike there, and a 53% to 41% advantage in Michigan.
Mr Trump barnstormed Pennsylvania on Saturday, holding rallies in Newtown, Reading, Butler and Montoursville.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1322687671072862212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"We win Pennsylvania, we win it all - you know that, right?" Mr Trump said on Saturday night in Butler.
He complained about states counting mail-in ballots after Election Day, and falsely claimed that the United States is "rounding the turn" against the coronavirus pandemic.
He praised his administration's response to the pandemic, claiming a vaccine would "end the pandemic once and for all," and that the country is "now just weeks away from the mass distributing of a safe vaccine."
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