Angst Pervades A Pair Of Republican Town Halls - One In Trump Country, The Other In A Swing State

In two congressional districts and vastly different political environments, two Republican congressmen were met with far different reactions at public meetings they held late last week.

Against the suggestion of their leader, House Speaker Mike Johnson , to refrain from holding public meetings with constituents, second-term Reps. Chuck Edwards and Harriet Hageman went ahead with their evening sessions.

In Asheville, North Carolina, chants of opposition greeted Edwards on Thursday as opponents hooted at almost every answer he gave and chanted outside. In Evanston, Wyoming, at the southwestern corner of a sparsely populated and heavily Republican state, it was mostly Republicans who asked probing questions of Hageman in a quieter setting.

In both cases, voters were curious about the scope and pace of action in Washington since President Donald Trump took office, if less boisterously in Wyoming than the event 1,800 miles 2,900 kilometers to the southeast.

Evanston, Wyoming