Jonathan Martin on Mike Flood’s Hostile Town Hall Crowd: Of Course You’re Going To Get that Kind of Response

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MARTIN: "Yeah, I mean, first of all, you can see now why the House leadership has told their members to do tele town halls instead of in-person town halls, because of course you’re going to get that kind of response. And you go to a place like Lincoln, you have obviously a strong Democratic presence and you have passionate people who are fired up about the issues, and they’re going to show up and get in your face politically and get clips like that. Secondly, the question I have is, why is Mike Flood a good rank-and-file member from Nebraska, the one out there trying to sell this bill and not getting air cover from the leader of his party? You know, Donald Trump demanded a lot of elements of. This bill, certainly some of the stuff that he promised on the campaign trail. Why is he not selling his bill? Has he done one event in any congressional district in America that’s competitive to sell this bill? He signed it on July 4th, a federal holiday, when nobody’s paying attention to the news. The next week, he started doing tariff threats again, and basically, for the last month, that’s been the bulk of his policy efforts, is doing tariff threats and negotiations. He has not done any salesmanship. The 'Art of the Deal' author is not selling.”