Another day, another beatdown at a Trump rally.
With the GOP frontrunner on stage, a Trump supporter at a rally in Tucson viciously assaulted a protester who was being led away.
The disturbing melee pitted a kicking, punch-throwing Trump loyalist against Bryan Sanders, 33, a protester kicked out of the rally at 3 p.m. Saturday for chanting “liar” amid a rabid crowd. It was yet one more slice of mayhem following Trump and his screwball campaign across the country.
“I feel great that I'm not dead, but I am definitely in physical pain,” Sanders told the Daily News.
The Tucson resident is nursing a swollen jaw and bruised ribcage after his alleged attacker, Tony Pettway, 32, landed a brutal sucker punch to Sanders’ right jaw.
Pettway continued with a flurry of five to six punches before kicking and stomping on Sanders in a Tucson Arena stairwell.
“I have nothing against the guy that attacked me," said Sanders, who was waving a picture of Trump overlaid with the Confederate flag when Pettway walloped him. "I don’t know him. He’s just an angry person and his anger is being accentuated by the political movement.”
The assault was caught on video from at least two angles, showing a swarm of cops weaving through a crowd of Trump supporters to grab Pettway. He faces a misdemeanor assault charge in suspicion of beating up Sanders.
The beatdown lasted nearly 10 seconds before security officers and police intervened.
“It’s disturbing for me to watch,” Sanders added. “Who would have intervened if this man had kept going? I’m actually frightened.”
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In another incident, Trump’s hotheaded campaign manager Corey Lewandowski — already accused of grabbing a female reporter’s arm and shoving her to the ground at a March 8 Florida rally — was seen in a blue suit wading into the crowd.
Lewandowski went nose-to-nose with a young protester who found himself surrounded by an angry crowd. Video shows Lewandowski’s hand landing briefly on the protester’s collar, as the man next to Lewandowski yanks the young man backward.
Trump said in a statement that Lewandowski hadn’t gotten physical with anyone at the rally and reiterated that the candidate doesn’t condone violence.
The tension started early Saturday on a sun-drenched stretch of desert highway where a Wild West showdown took place between demonstrators and sheriff’s deputies, delaying the GOP front-runner and his supporters from attending a rally in Fountain Hills.
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The Trump haters parked their cars in the middle of the three-lane road leading to the Phoenix suburb and unfurled banners bashing the controversial candidate.
Some even chained themselves to their cars to slow down cops’ efforts to clear the blockade.
Traffic was backed up for miles, with drivers honking in fury.
“We are here to send a message loud and clear to Donald Trump that he is not welcomed in Arizona and we will not allow his racism and bigotry to go unchecked,” said Francisca Porchas, one of the organizers of the protest.
Police eventually dispersed the crowd and arrested three people.
The real estate magnate took the stage an hour later and hurled insults at his rivals, promised to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border and claimed America “is not winning anymore” during a rambling, wide-ranging speech that provided few policy details.
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Trump supporter Geroy Morgan, 62, made it to the park in time to hear Trump speak — but was furious at the demonstrators.
“We come here, the silent majority, to express our opinions,” Morgan said. “They don’t have any permits or rights.”
Trump was joined by Arizona’s controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who mentioned the gridlock as he introduced the brash billionaire.
The crowd broke out in applause when he said there were arrests.
Arizona votes Tuesday in a winner-take-all Republican primary as well as a Democratic race.
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With Denis Slattery
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