The anti-Trump protesters, a group that at one point swelled to some 7,000 people, outnumbered the Trump supporters who saw fit to engage them as they left the San Diego Convention Center downtown following Trump’s rally.
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After the convention centre emptied, clusters of Trump supporters and anti-Trump demonstrators began to mix in the streets, many exchanging shouted epithets and some throwing water bottles at one another.
Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman vowed that law enforcement will tolerate no violence, disruptive behavior or unlawful acts at the Trump event.
Trump now has the backing of 1,238 delegates, one more than the 1,237 needed, according to the U.S. news agency the Associated Press which first reported Trump crossing the threshold. The Associated Press reported that about a dozen people were arrested.
The protests were peaceful – if noisy – but a major deployment of police pushed them back away from the convention center and along Harbor Drive to an overpass.
In a message to the San Diego Police Department, Trump applauded the officers’ response to the protesters.
Protests in New Mexico turned violent on Tuesday, prompting fears of a similar escalation at Trump’s campaign appearances in California this week.
An anti-Trump protester being arrested outside a campaign rally in San Diego yesterday.
He said his plan would remove bureaucracy from energy innovation and wean the country off energy imports.
“It’s fine if other people have different opinions, people with less education”, said Wiliam Turner, 59, a Trump supporter from Santee, a San Diego suburb.
While Trump on Friday said many people were happy with the courses, affidavits filed in some of the cases show some students felt the program consisted of worthless information they could have obtained for free.
“I’d love to debate Bernie”, he told a rally in Fresno, California. Is it a drought?’ ‘No, we have plenty of water.’ I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ ‘Well, we shove it out to sea.’ And I said, ‘Why?’ And nobody even knows why, and the environmentalists don’t know why.
The suggested debate, an idea first raised during a talk show appearance by the NY billionaire, would have sidelined likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton but given Sanders a huge platform ahead of California Democratic primary.
“I will not say because it’s not politically correct and it’s not a nice thing to say, so I will not say that she shouts into the microphone and it drives everybody insane”. “Well, Mr. Trump, what are you afraid of?”
“I’ve never been a fan of hate speech my entire life”, he said.
“I want to debate him so badly”.
“She was saying all sorts of things so bad, and so false, total lies”.
“Take a look at what’s going on with our military that we love”.
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“What I’m most concerned about is making sure that we actually have real party unity, not pretend party unity”, Ryan told reporters in Washington.
