The PBS Newshour did a deep dive with the people who attended Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood’s town hall this week, and sorry Fox “news,” but it wasn’t full of outside agitators or Democratic plants.
That’s been the standard talking point from the right who have been doing their best to dismiss the real fear and anger voters of all political stripes have been feeling ever since Musk and his DOGE crew have been taking a wrecking ball to the United States government and threatening our social safety nets and Social Security.
As we discussed here, Flood’s town hall did not go well, as he told the attendees that he fully supported that Musk was doing, annexing Canada, abandoning Ukraine, privatizing the Post Office and the rest of the carnage we’ve been witnessing this last month or two.
As PBS reported, Flood stood outside of the town hall and met each of the people entering the building one by one, and told them he welcomed their questions, so he knew full well the people who attended were actually from his district, which went 3-1 for Trump.
Reporter Lisa Desjardins caught up to Flood once the town hall was over, and Flood lamely tried to blame the anger on the media:
