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Hundreds of People Protest Trump at California's GOP Convention

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Protestors link arms and block street outside the California GOP convention. (Nicole Reinert/KQED)

Update: 7:27 p.m.: After wading through hundreds of largely peaceful protestors this afternoon, presidential candidate Donald Trump made it to the California GOP Convention in Burlingame. Once inside, Trump's familiar combination of humor, putdowns, disparagement and ridicule were on full display, if a little more muted, and no one was spared.

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Update: 1 p.m. 

(AP) Dozens of protesters have broken through steel barricades surrounding the California hotel where Donald Trump will address the state GOP convention.

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The protesters are also throwing eggs at police and chanting anti-Trump slogans. Many other protesters remain on the sidewalk.

Dozens of officers have formed a human chain around the hotel entrance and driveway and are standing shoulder-to-shoulder in riot gear in an attempt to keep demonstrators out of the venue.
Trump entered the convention from an access point behind the hotel, avoiding protesters.

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Several hundred protesters have gathered near a Burlingame, California, hotel where Donald Trump will address the state GOP convention. A dozen protesters linked arms Friday to block the road in front of the hotel, but no one was using the street because police had already closed it to traffic. On Thursday night, Trump supporters and opponents got into confrontations outside a Trump rally in Southern California, and raucous protesters damaged police cars.

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KQED will have post-protest analysis later this evening.

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