Hundreds of raucous protesters stormed a California hotel on Friday shortly before Donald Trump made a speech at the venue.
It came as the Republican White House front runner made a speech to the party's state convention.
The hordes of demonstrators broke through barricades to get to the front doors of the Hyatt Regency near San Francisco airport and threw eggs at police before being driven back by officers in riot gear.
Some protesters infiltrated the building and hung a giant banner reading: "Stop Hate."
The protest comes a day after at least 20 people were arrested as Trump supporters and opponents clashed outside a rally in Southern California.
Mr Trump had to enter the besieged venue in the city of Burlingame on Friday by the back door.
Aerial footage showed the 69-year-old emerging from a motorcade, flanked by Secret Service agents, and walking up a small dirt hill at the side of a road.
"That was not the easiest entrance," he said as he began his speech, quipping that it "felt like I was crossing the border".
The real estate baron, whose outsider campaign has upheaved the Republican party, was making his case to California's conservative establishment.
During his speech, Mr Trump called for the party to unify behind him but added that even if it doesn't, he thinks he can beat Hillary Clinton.
"There has to be unity in our party," he said.
Mr Trump's two rivals for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, were also addressing the party's state convention on Friday.
But most of the protesters' invective seemed to be directed at the Manhattan property mogul.
On Thursday night, violence erupted during demonstrations at a Trump rally in the city of Costa Mesa.
The front and back windows of a police car were smashed and its roof was dented.
A Trump supporter suffered a bloodied face in a scuffle as he tried to drive out of the arena.
The Pacific Amphitheatre was filled to its 18,000-strong capacity and many hundreds more were turned away.
California holds its Republican primary on 7 June.
Voters in the heavily Latino state of California have objected to Mr Trump's immigration proposals and comments he has made about Mexicans.
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