Red-state Republican gets mercilessly jeered at town hall
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Members of the U.S. House are back home for the entire month of August—a time meant for lawmakers to meet with their constituents and defend their record in Congress. And it's not going well for the GOP, with constituents packing into town halls to give the few Republican members brave enough to hold such events a piece of their mind.
The latest victim is Rep. Mike Flood, a Republican who represents a district in Nebraska that President Donald Trump carried by 13 points in 2024. That makes Flood’s district a safe Republican seat in a typical year, but one that could be competitive if backlash to Trump and the GOP’s agenda creates Democratic wave conditions in next year’s midterms.
The response Flood got at his latest town hall event Monday night should have him shaking in his boots, as more than 750 people packed into an auditorium to boo, jeer, and demand answers for why Flood would vote for the "One Big, Beautiful Bill" that kicks millions off their health care and food stamps .
The National Republican Congressional Committee—the campaign arm of House Republicans—has advised its members to “ go on offense ” about “ One Big, Beautiful Bill ” to sell it to voters.
But that didn't work at Flood's town hall, with voters calling Flood a liar as he sought to defend himself for voting for legislation that steals critical benefits from the poorest Americans in order to only partly pay for tax cuts that benefit the rich.
When asked why he'd vote for the bill, Flood said that, "We do not have unlimited money in the United States."
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"Do you think that people who are 28 years old, that can work and refuse to work, should get free health care?" Flood added , to which the audience replied that they believe people like that do deserve health care.
But OBBB wasn't the only thing Flood's constituents were mad at him for. Other town hall attendees called Flood a fascist for supporting Trump's immigration policies, including the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility in Florida.
"You said in Seward [County] that you were not a fascist,” one attendee said . “But your complicity says otherwise.”
By the end of the night on Monday, attendees were chanting " vote him out ”—an ominous sign for the Republican lawmaker.
Flood, for his part, is one of the few Republicans who has held town halls this year , with most in hiding to avoid facing the rage of angry voters. Indeed, GOP leaders have advised Republican lawmakers not to hold town hall events to avoid the kind of confrontations Flood faced on Monday night.
The ones who have held events have been met with similarly angry voters. For example, Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) was booed and jeered at a town hall he hosted on July 31 for everything from supporting Trump’s destructive tariffs to Trump’s deportation policy. Steil represents a district Trump carried by 4.5 points in 2024, making him a prime Democratic target in next year’s midterms.
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And Rep. August Pfluger—who represents a safe GOP seat in Texas—was asked by angry constituents at a town hall in late July about why money meant for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was being redirected to build immigrant detention facilities like “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Republicans who deny that these town hall events matter do so at their own peril.
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Judging by this, the attempt to "sell" the big beautiful bill to voters will be an uphill task.
it's going to get a lot harder finding magas to jump under the trump bus as we get closer to the midterms ...
The "BBB" is for real and it's working. The "Daily Kos" is a far-left rag that speaks little truth and much liberal propaganda
Republicans as a whole, and Trump supporters in particular, are generally happy with the right's agenda and successes
No way in hell are the Dems going to increase their numbers in the House and Senate
It has been well documented that left wing groups that do not even live in the district flood these meetings to make it look like it is disgruntled constituents there.
This is more than likely nothing different.
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Please provide a link to that "documentation".
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But here is a little snippet. I’m sure you will find a way to dismiss it, though.
’Later Tuesday, Hudson told reporters that "in-person town halls are no longer effective because Democrat activists are threatening democracy by disrupting the actual communication at town halls."
Progressive groups have previously pushed for their supporters to attend town halls, but it is unclear whether those initiatives influenced the attendees who raised issues with the lawmakers to join the events.
As expected, no proof at all, just a quote from a reactionary propagandist.
So much for "well documented".
For many, if not most, right wingers "well documented" means "in my uninformed opinion".
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Bizarre. Incoherent and bizarre.
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I would say yes, Comment 2.2.7 is incoherent, bizarre and obnoxious.
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‘Do you think that people who are 28 years old, that can work and refuse to work, should get free health care?" Flood added , to which the audience replied that they believe people like that do deserve health care.’
This is prime proof of my comment above. No conservative or Republican agrees with this nonsense.
Nothing more than another left wing shit show.
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His comment that "America doesn't have unlimited money" was a farce.
His party, the Republican party, just blew up the deficit to the tune of TRILLIONS of dollars just to repeat a bigger version of the Bush tax cuts handed over to wealthy billionaires.
The Republican party rather than give Biden a win on the most bipartisan immigration reform bill in history, with many Republicans recommending the bill as great progress, they decided to play contrarians again and fund ICE with more money than a small country.
The war on women, any human being of color, the elderly, the sick and dying, the disabled and anyone at all in a blue state, is just a war on Americans who aren't in the millionaire or billionaire class.
The use dog whistle hot button social issues to turn their base into obedient Republican voters while ripping everyone off.
Folks are getting wise to it and not "woke", just painfully aware at long last that Republicans were never looking out for their interests.
Does it not occur to the billionaires that if they kill us all who will mop their floors and mow their lawns?
Robots.
Oh...right.