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Senate Democrats were shaken to the core after seeing videos of officers aggressively pushing California Sen. Alex Padilla out of a news conference with the Homeland Security secretary and eventually restraining him on the floor outside the room. Democrats have been beaten down politically for months as President Donald Trump has returned to power and ruled Washington with a united Republican Congress. But the Democrats’ anger exploded as they skipped their traditional Thursday flights home and stayed on the floor to speak out against the incident. They called it the latest and most inflammatory example of what they say is Trump’s gradual assault on democracy.