Symone Sanders on tackling Biden protester: ‘It was a split-second’ decision

Published March 4, 2020 8:59pm ET



Symone Sanders, a senior adviser to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, said she “didn’t think” much before she tackled a protester who had rushed the stage at the former vice president’s campaign event.

“It was a split-second moment,” Sanders said Wednesday on Fox News. “Our security acted very quickly, and then a number of staffers, including myself, jumped in to have Vice President Biden, Dr. Biden, and Valerie Biden Owens’s back as they were on the stage. And so I don’t think we even really thought. We just saw what was happening and jumped in. We’re happy no one was hurt.”

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