Attendees attending Donald Trump's rally in New Hampshire interrupted the event to join the former president on stage, but were quickly removed.
“Who is this? Is this a friend?” President Trump asked during a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Saturday night.
video of the gathering A man wearing a black sweatshirt that read “Kelly's Roast Beef” was shown yelling gibberish at the former president.
“Get out of here. Get out of here,” President Trump shouted. “You can kick him out.”
Video from the rally shows that as Secret Service agents and local Manchester police approached the instigator, the man appeared to try to grab his jacket, then turned and began walking quickly toward the stage.
Secret Service agents at the bottom of the stairs blocked the protesters' progress, and the man was quickly arrested.
Trump supporters booed and chanted “America, America” at the protesters as the man was led out of the stadium.
“We know politics is getting serious, and now we know we're getting serious,” Trump said as he led the protesters. “Now he's just a nuisance.”
The Republican presidential front-runner said the protesters were only interrupting because “we are leading,” adding that billionaire George Soros paid the rally participants. He claimed that
“Remember, things like this used to happen all the time. But maybe now we're really in political season,” President Trump said. “By the way, a lot of those guys are paid by Soros. So these guys are troublemakers.”
“This is only happening because of weaponization and because we are leading the way,” he continued.
Trump, who is running for the White House for the third time in a row, is likely to vote in next Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, according to a poll released Friday by Suffolk University, the Boston Globe and Boston's NBC10. It has 52% support among people of gender.
Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador during the Trump administration, has an approval rating of 35%, up 2 points from Wednesday's poll.
Mr. DeSantis remained in a distant third place with 6% for the second day in a row.
