AUSTIN (KXAN) — Days before the November election, Wendy Davis, an Austin, Texas congressional candidate, was on board the Biden-Harris campaign bus as it was swarmed by a caravan of President Donald Trump’s supporters in Central Texas.
Trump would later praise the group, tweeting: “I LOVE TEXAS.”
“It was unnerving for everyone,” Davis told sister station KXAN on Tuesday. “I would hope that we never get numb enough to that kind of behavior that it’s normal and that it’s okay and, really, that’s what this impeachment trial is about right now.”
While the incident on I-35 occurred months before Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, it will be part of the U.S. House’s argument that Trump incited violence that led to the riot and should be convicted by the U.S. Senate.
According to the House trial memorandum: “October 30, when a caravan of his supporters in Texas attacked a bus full of Biden campaign workers, nearly running it off the road, President Trump tweeted a stylized video of the caravan and captioned it, ‘I LOVE TEXAS!’ Days later, he declared that ‘these patriots’—who could easily have killed a busload of innocent campaign staff—’did nothing wrong.'”