Angry constituents confronted Missouri Republican Representative Mark Alford during a rare GOP town hall on Monday. Voters accused the legislator of being more loyal to MAGA Republican President Donald Trump than to the people he's supposed to represent in Congress.
One attendee from Bolivar, Missouri, farmer and former firefighter Fred Higginbotham, drew cheers for his no-nonsense comments to Alford. Higginbotham said he inherited his family's farm, but was struggling to stay afloat.
Higginbotham told the Republican Representative:
"I am pissed and I am pissed at you. Get Trump out of office."
"The man is a dictator. He knows nothing about what he talks about. I listened to him for about a half hour today and I got sick at all the lies he brought up.”
He asked Alford, a former Kansas City news anchor:
"Do you think we're idiots? Do you think we don't pay taxes?"
Higginbotham added:
"You know nothing about what a working class citizen does."
“You need to take your head out of Trump’s a** and start doing your representation of us."
You can watch the moment here:
People concurred with Higginbotham's statements about the GOP and the current POTUS.
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Once cozied up to Trump, Alford appeared to want to distance himself from the President during his town hall.
Speaking to his constituents at all is already a departure from most of his fellow Republicans.
GOP leadership, including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, advised their rank and file to avoid voters as much as possible because their constituents probably don't like what Trump and the GOP are doing.
Republicans seem to think they can hide until the 2026 midterm elections and that voters will forget their grievances by then.
As a political strategy, it doesn't seem to be going well.
