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A sensitive incident broke out over the weekend around a column of campaign vehicles belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on an expressway in the US state of Texas.
Several vehicles belonging to supporters of US President Donald Trump tried to slow down a Democratic campaign bus and push it off the road, Biden's campaign team said on Sunday.
The FBI began the investigation, as the federal police announced on Sunday evening (local time).
"FBI San Antonio has been informed of the incident and will look into it," said spokeswoman Michelle Lee.
However, she did not want to go into detail.
Video footage on social media showed several SUVs with Trump flags forming around the bus on the San Antonio-Austin expressway 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 newspaper report in the Texas Tribune, the US House of Representatives nominee and former Texas Senator, Wendy Davis, was in the car.
All inmates were uninjured.
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.
The Democrats accuse the president of encouraging his supporters to attempt intimidation.
Again the President speaks of "patriots"
At an event in the state of Michigan, Trump scoffed at the incident in Texas: "Did you see our people yesterday? They wanted to protect his bus!"
In response to the FBI investigation, he wrote on Sunday evening (local time): "In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong."
He last used this term when many of his supporters in Portland (Oregon) sought confrontation with left-wing demonstrators.
Speaking of the incident on Sunday at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Biden described Trump's approval of such actions as abnormal and divisive: "There's never been anything like that. At least we've never had a president who believes that something like 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.
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