Videos of Republican Heckled at Town Hall Viewed 1 Million Times
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Representative Chuck Edwards at the town hall event in Asheville, North Carolina, on Thursday. Representative Chuck Edwards at the town hall event in Asheville, North Carolina, on Thursday. Makiya Seminera/AP
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Footage of Republican Representative Chuck Edwards being heckled at a town hall event in North Carolina has gone viral on social media, racking up more than one million views.
In one video, a man can be seen shouting at Edwards at the event in Asheville on Thursday: “Do your job that you were sent there to do, to represent us all…I’m a veteran and you don’t give a f*** about me.”
Edwards can then be seen calling for a “sheriff,” at which point several police officers approach the heckler and remove him from the audience. The video received more than 475,000 views and 13,000 likes.
A person is removed from the Chuck Edwards town hall
“Do your job that you were sent there to do… to represent us all. I’m a veteran and you don’t give a fuck about me” pic.twitter.com/F9Hg6NiElf
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 13, 2025
A second clip shows the man being escorted out of the room by four police officers while he continues to shout and gesticulate towards Edwards. This clip has been viewed more than 331,000 times.
In a third video, Edwards insists President Trump does care about Ukraine, which sparked a wave of booing from the audience.
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