{"id":2413262,"date":"2025-03-14T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/edwards-faces-angry-crowd-after-bucking-advice-to-avoid-town-halls-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:43:01","slug":"edwards-faces-angry-crowd-after-bucking-advice-to-avoid-town-halls-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/edwards-faces-angry-crowd-after-bucking-advice-to-avoid-town-halls-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards faces angry crowd after bucking advice to avoid town halls &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fedwards-faces-angry-crowd-after-bucking-advice-to-avoid-town-halls-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2413262&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Republican Chuck Edwards faces angry constituents after bucking advice to avoid town halls<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2039557\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>As House Republicans dodged holding town halls across the country in fear of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/3335763\/trump-democrats-doge-protest-gop-town-halls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democrat-organized<\/a> protests, Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n20oi-EVfH8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chuck Edwards<\/a> (R-NC) saw the consequences of not heeding House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Johnson&rsquo;s <\/a>advice to avoid holding them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-and-environment\/3181881\/gop-congressman-western-north-carolina-decries-helene-rumors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Edwards<\/a> said he didn&rsquo;t want to &ldquo;shy away&rdquo; from speaking to his constituents, who then showed up in force at his Thursday town hall to protest and boo him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3348156\/democrats-shatter-jeffries-schumer-trump-shutdown-bill\/\">Democratic Party shatters over Trump-backed bill to avert government shutdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3348081\/senate-passes-halt-fentanyl-act-drug-epidemic\/\">Senate passes HALT Fentanyl Act to crack down on drug epidemic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3348339\/third-senate-democrat-backs-gop-spending-bill\/\">Third Senate Democrat backs GOP spending bill as clock ticks toward government shutdown<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The North Carolina representative found it difficult to get a word in while approximately 300 people packed into a college auditorium in Asheville and over 1,000 people outside were booing, jeering, and shouting expletives.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards represents North Carolina&rsquo;s 11th congressional District, which encompasses much of Western North Carolina and Asheville. He won reelection handily in 2024, beating North Carolina House Rep. Caleb Rudow, 56.8% to 43.2%. Hurricane Helene&rsquo;s flooding hit his district hard, requiring millions of dollars in aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the recovery effort.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Buncombe County, where the town hall was held, <a href=\"https:\/\/er.ncsbe.gov\/?election_dt=11\/05\/2024&amp;county_id=11&amp;office=ALL&amp;contest=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">voted<\/a> for former Vice President Kamala Harris over President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>At one point during the town hall, a self-professed veteran screamed at Edwards, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a veteran, and you don&rsquo;t give a f*ck about me,&rdquo; and was removed by police.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A person is removed from the Chuck Edwards town hall<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do your job that you were sent there to do&hellip; to represent us all. I&rsquo;m a veteran and you don&rsquo;t give a fuck about me&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F9Hg6NiElf\">pic.twitter.com\/F9Hg6NiElf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1900315541241552965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>The moment illustrated the tense atmosphere surrounding the town hall, where constituents asked questions about Elon Musk&rsquo;s Department of Government Efficiency, cuts to programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, and Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/1900323641046274237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">threats<\/a> to acquire or annex Canada and Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>On the latter question, Edwards said he didn&rsquo;t support annexing those countries, which elicited applause from the audience.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Protesters show up with signs to a town hall held by Rep. Chuck Edwards in Asheville, N.C., on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo\/Makiya Seminera)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Edwards pleaded with the crowd multiple times to let him speak. &ldquo;Let me answer, and then if you don&rsquo;t like it, you can boo or hiss or whatever you&rsquo;d like to do,&rdquo; Edwards said.<\/p>\n<p>At another, he expressed his frustration again. &ldquo;I feel like this is not productive with everybody yelling at me,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>His extended response cheered the crowd up, but perhaps not in the way he was hoping. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re not gonna like a lot of [the answers], and you certainly will have the right in the next election to cast your vote based off what you&rsquo;re hearing coming from me now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The crowd burst into cheers after that comment, suggesting they would vote against Edwards in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3315975\/doge-doing-across-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRACKING WHAT DOGE IS DOING ACROSS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edwards said in a post-town hall press conference that he would continue doing town halls. He said during the event that he prided his &ldquo;accessibility to the public,&rdquo; which drew some favor from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This was a little more uncomfortable than some of the others, but that&rsquo;s OK. Folks should have the right to voice their opinion,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2039557\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2039557\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Chuck Edwards faces angry constituents after bucking advice to avoid town halls As House Republicans dodged holding town halls across the country in fear of Democrat-organized protests, Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) saw the consequences of not heeding House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s advice to avoid holding them. Edwards said he didn\u2019t want to \u201cshy away\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2413263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chuck-Edwards.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Chuck-Edwards.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}