House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) weighed in at a town hall meeting with CNN from Wisconsin on Monday following President Donald Trump’s speech on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, saying that the United States could negotiate with the Taliban going forward.
Nearly 100 protesters gathered outside a town hall for Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Saturday, chanting “let us in.”
A new Facebook feature allows politicians to connect with constituents by showing which users in the comments are in their constituency.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) is one of the biggest political fans of comedian Kathy Griffin, who stirred controversy and outrage on Tuesday after posing for a photograph with a (fake) severed, bloody head of President Donald Trump.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) devoted an entire town hall meeting in Berkeley on Sunday to the question of whether, and how, President Donald Trump can be removed from office.
From the folks on the Left who claim bullying is a huge social problem comes a nationwide effort to bully Republican lawmakers who hold in-person town hall meetings with their constituents.
The nationwide effort to disrupt town hall meetings of members of Congress continued earlier this week when Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) attempted to conduct a Q and A with his constituents in Jackson, Mich.
Liberal activists involved in a nationwide effort to disrupt town hall meetings being held by lawmakers for their constituents reached a new low on Wednesday night when Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) was mocked when he told the unruly crowd about how the death of his special needs daughter informed his decision to amend and vote for the American Health Care Act that was passed by the House earlier this month.
A Tennessee woman was arrested after she allegedly chased down a car with a congressman inside and threatened him following a town hall, police said.
Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) faced unending interruptions at a town hall meeting in Richmond on Tuesday night. Before Brat could even speak, the crowd chanted “read our questions,” and repeatedly yelled out “you lie” as he tried to make his
Rep. Rod Blum (R-Iowa) ended an interview with a reporter on Monday in which he was questioned about requiring identification for people taking part in his town hall meetings. Left-wing activists across the country have systematically disrupted these events — sometimes people who are not constituents.
Despite the left’s attempt to deny it, some anti-Trump protesters are indeed paid to show up — including those from a growing number of tech companies who are paying their employees to participate in anti-Trump rallies.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) held a town hall in Redondo Beach on Monday night that turned raucous before it started when a group of President Donald Trump’s supporters disrupted the largely Democrat crowd’s calls for his impeachment.
Facebook are encouraging users to engage with their respective elected officials as part of the platform’s new “Town Hall” feature.
Supporters of President Donald Trump disrupted a town hall held by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in the Inland Empire town of Ontario on Thursday evening, the San Bernardino Sun reports.
Left-wing activists booed a Republican congressman at a town hall event in suburban Detroit Saturday after he voiced his support for increased military spending.
The GOP website is contrasting House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) flip flop on what she thinks of Americans disrupting town hall events hosted by members of Congress — from “un-American” to honoring “our founders.”
Approximately 60 groups came together under the “Indivisible East Bay” umbrella to hold an “empty chair” town hall for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in Oakland on Sunday, despite the senator’s absence.
Demonstrators protested Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Friday outside of her appearance at the Public Policy Institute of California Friday in San Francisco, to complain about her decision not to hold town hall meetings during the week’s congressional recess.
As the media focuses on a handful of contentious town hall meetings held by Republican senators, several Democrats who face re-election campaigns this year have quietly decided to skip town halls to meet their constituents.
MILTON, FL — Dozens of protesters showed up Thursday at an event hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a freshman congressman representing Florida’s first congressional district. But it wasn’t President Donald Trump they were protesting — it was the environment.
McClintock to #Resistance: “Do you object because the President is breaking his promises? Or do you object because he is keeping them?
Mainstream media journalists have begun to justify the militancy, and violence, of the Democrats’ so-called “resistance” by referring to the Tea Party’s protests at town hall meetings and elsewhere in 2009-10.
The residents of a small Yorkshire town have successfully fought off plans to house migrants in their midst, arguing that there were no services or resources available for the newcomers.
It was a painful hour that showed just how poorly the opposition is led on Capitol Hill — and raises urgent questions about why Pelosi still remains atop her party after so many failures.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) started off Monday night’s CNN town hall with Chris Cuomo delivering biting words against President-elect Donald Trump, calling him a “pathological liar,” before going on to praise him for winning the presidency when an audience member asked him what he deemed Trump’s “strongest attribute.”
In the three days since the first presidential debate, Donald Trump’s critics have become increasingly shrill. The hyperbole is helping Trump set expectations that guarantee he wins the next two debates.
During a town hall with members of the military, President Obama was asked what he thought of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the national anthem prior to football games. Obama appeared to equate the two positions —
Speaker Paul Ryan does not support the idea of mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the country, favoring instead an immigration solution allowing them a path to legalization.
President Barack Obama boasted of his legacy during a town hall in Britain, asserting that he single- handedly saved the world during his presidency. “Saving the world economy from a Great Depression — that was pretty good,” Obama bragged when
Speaker Paul Ryan insists that he is not running for president, but he is continuing his communications blitz for the future of the Republican party.
MSNBC broadcast live almost 15 minutes of a pre-recorded Fox News town hall with Sen. Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday, before being asked to turn off the cameras.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters on Monday that the establishment’s idea to “parachute in some white knight” other than himself or Donald Trump is nothing but a “fevered pipe dream” that would cause a “revolt.”
One questioner in Tuesday night’s CNN Town Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pressed presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz on how he will win the women’s vote, to which he pointed to the plethora of strong women who have surrounded him throughout his life, as he stated that “every issue is a woman’s issue.”
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz insists he will eventually be the 2016 Republican presidential nominee.
2016 Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz is marching on with a challenge to frontrunner Donald Trump, suggesting that Tuesday’s scheduled CNN town hall could become a debate between the two.
SUMMERLIN, Nevada — Dr. Ben Carson addressed a packed town hall meeting in suburban Las Vegas on Tuesday morning, just hours before Republican voters headed to the caucuses.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush about his ability to speak Spanish, and Bush responded by asking Cooper in Spanish if he wanted to conduct the rest of the interview in his second tongue.
Sen. Ted Cruz was out on the snowy eve of the New Hampshire debate courting voters on issues of immigration and regulating the pharmaceutical industry while looking to win over libertarians left behind now that Sen. Rand Paul has left the race.
“Common sense” rhetoric is popular on both sides of the political divide. It’s not as if Barack Obama invented the trope, but he might be the worst abuser currently performing on the political stage… especially because he uses “common sense” in the Orwellian understanding of the term. His CNN infomercial for gun control turned into a disaster precisely because Obama’s agenda is the exact opposite of common sense.
