Scott Jennings on Chaos at North Carolina GOP Town Hall: ‘It’s a Liberal Mob’

PHILLIP: “Roy Wood Jr., the host of CNN’s ‘Have I Got News for You,’ is joining us at the table. I’m not sure I expected that — “
WOOD JR.: “I’m not laughing at those people’s pain. Let me just make that clear.”
PHILLIP: “What are you laughing at?”
WOOD JR.: “No, because they showed the chaos and you cut to me grinning. I don’t want you to think that that’s the way I was — it’s just — “
PHILLIP: “Tell us.”
WOOD JR.: “There’s no way that Republicans were prepared for this level of response to these cuts. Like, the fact that people are there and that fervent, we’re only six weeks into Trump right now, like, that part of it, I think they were very much shocked. And I was laughing because I’ve done comedy shows that have been that rowdy.”
(Laughter)
JENNINGS: “You don’t think Republicans were prepared for unhinged liberal mobs? We’ve been dealing with this since Donald Trump won in 2016.”
WOOD JR.: “Those weren’t liberal.”
JENNINGS: “Believe me. I watched a little bit. I looked at the questions. ‘Why is he shredding the Constitution?’ Putin this, Putin that. One guy had to be escorted out, he was so unhandy.”
PHILLIP: “That was that guy, the veteran.”
HINOJOSA: “Scott, if they — “
JENNINGS: “It’s a mob. It’s a liberal mob.”
HINOJOSA: “Scott, this is what you’re saying about veterans. If Republicans weren’t so worried, then why did you have the Republican Party go out and say, ‘Stop doing town halls, stop talking to real people?’”
JENNINGS: “It’s a stupid idea.”
WOOD JR.: “Talking to the voters is stupid?”
HINOJOSA: “Because they don’t want to talk to people. They don’t want to talk to voters. This is why you guys are polling so poorly.”
JENNINGS: “We’re not. Wait a minute, we’re polling poorly? Can we just revisit the Democrat congressional approval rating?”
HINOJOSA: “Congress is polling poorly. Donald Trump is also polling poorly.”
JENNINGS: “Twice as much as Democrats in Congress.”
HINOJOSA: “40 percent of the American people, according to a CNN poll, says that — 40 percent say that they care about him. And then you have a veteran out there saying, ‘I’m a veteran, and you don’t give an F about me.’ That is in line with how people feel about Donald Trump. And if you want to go off, and if you want to say that it’s — “
JENNINGS: “Totally false. If you want to tell yourself a story about these paid mobs — “
HINOJOSA: “If you want to say that it’s liberals going and they’re being paid, then you guys are going to lose the midterms. And you know what? Wonderful.”
WOOD JR.: “So you’re telling me everybody that’s showing up to these town halls to boo these Republicans on these crazy policies that they’re supporting right now, these are all paid? We’re going back to — you’re playing the hits from 2020.”
JENNINGS: “It’s unrepresentative of that congressional district where this guy got like 56 percent of the vote — “
WOOD JR.: “So was unemployment — “
JENNINGS: “ — and of the state which Donald Trump won. These are unrepresentative, unhinged mobs. I don’t know what else to tell you. That’s what they are.”
SEAT: “And do you think Republicans who support the cuts and what this president is doing would even get a fair hearing? They would get shouted down immediately.”