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Biden Gets Secret Service Protection After Protester Run-Ins

Associated Press

   Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has been repeatedly
   accosted by protesters on the campaign trail, is receiving U.S. Secret
   Service protection beginning this week, the agency said.

   Biden made the request earlier this month after a handful of testy
   interactions with protesters at recent campaign events, including one
   in which two protesters rushed a stage in Los Angeles and came within a
   few meters of Biden during a Super Tuesday victory speech. Biden's
   wife, Jill, and several staff members, including one trained security
   officer employed by the campaign, restrained the women and carried them
   from the stage. Neither the former vice president nor his wife was
   hurt.

   The leading candidates in the 2012 and 2016 presidential contests had
   Secret Service protection by this point in those races. Neither Biden
   nor Democratic primary rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders had requested
   protection until now. Sanders still has not made a request.

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