North Carolina GOP town hall gets rowdy as attendees hurl scathing questions on Trump [View all]
Source: Yahoo! News/AP
Thu, March 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM EDT
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Before answering an attendee's question about President Donald Trump's “destructive and disastrous trade war,” U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards made a plea to the rowdy crowd at his Thursday town hall in Asheville, North Carolina. “Let me answer and then if you don't like it, you can boo or hiss or whatever you'd like to do,” Edwards said, visibly exhausted. As he expanded on Trump's use of tariffs as a negotiating tactic, it took less than a minute for the crowd to break out in outrage.
He continued to plow ahead in his response and eventually punctuated it by telling attendees he would “stop there and you can yell.” The crowd gladly took him up on the offer. For about an hour and half, Edwards endured a constant barrage of jeers, expletives and searing questions on Trump administration policies. About 300 people crammed inside a college auditorium for the town hall, while the boos from more than a thousand people outside the building rumbled throughout the event.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told GOP representatives last week to skip out on town halls, saying demonstrations outside of them were the work of “professional protesters.” Edwards addressed the Republican leader's advice, saying he didn't want to “shy away” from conversations with the people of western North Carolina — even if they disagreed.
But less than 30 minutes into the town hall, Edwards started to change his tune as a majority of attendees interrupted him with vitriolic disruptions. Asheville is a deep-blue dot amid a sea of red in North Carolina's mountains. North Carolina went for Trump in the 2024 election. “And you wonder why folks don't want to do these town halls,” Edwards said over shouting.
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Ashville has been left in bad shape after multiple flooding events last year and they have a RIGHT to demand answers from the ilk that is their Rep.
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