PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Student supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump got a rude awakening Thursday when they were attacked while distributing literature and swag on campus.

Matt Kerlin, a Pitt student and unpaid Trump volunteer, set up a table along a sidewalk near Hillman Library to distribute stickers, koozies, and informational handouts to passing students, which provoked a range of reactions from those who vowed to vote for Trump to others screaming “f*uck the male patriarchy!” and flipping over the table, The Pitt Maverick reports.

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When Kerlin set up his table around noon it “attracted many fellow students who pledged to vote for Trump. Many students were also relieved to finally have Trump represented on campus amongst the Hillary Clinton campaign and NextGen Climate tables that frequent campus sidewalks,” according to the school’s news site.

It didn’t take long, however, for Trump haters to descend on Kerlin and other volunteers manning the table.

One passer-by yelled “f*uck the white male patriarchy!” and another remarked “I can’t believe you guys are actually people.”

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One student told the Trump supporters the Republican candidate wants to get rid of “his people,” while another resorted to childish pranks.

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From The Pitt Maverick:

Kerlin and Breiner were approached and harassed by a man claiming that the table was supporting a “racist” candidate. The man grabbed a stack of door-hanger literature and attempted to run off with them, but Kerlin relinquished the literature unharmed after being stopped a few feet away, though not before the perpetrator nearly initiated a fight with him.

“We responded by telling him that that’s absolutely ridiculous, and then he got agitated and grabbed a stack of literature from our table and ran off with it,” Breiner said.

It took about two hours before things really got out of hand.

Sophomore Steven Evanovich was recording the situation when two students approached the table and attempted to put it out of business – one sweeping the literature to the ground while the other flipped the table, Campus Reform reports.

“It’s a shame that different opinions are met with such hostility at institutions of higher learning,” Evanovich told The Pitt Maverick. “Calling Trump’s rhetoric ‘hate speech’ actually reinforces and encourages the notion that violence against conservative or dissenting students is justified, and my own campus shouldn’t be a place where my friends or I are fearful for having opposing opinions.”

KDKA confirmed that campus police are investigating the incident, though school officials have not addressed it.