‘Can I Hear That Again?’: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Laughs at Video of GOP Congresswoman Getting Booed at Town Hall

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HINSON: “At a recent event in Cedar Rapids, I received overwhelmingly positive feedback about the work that DOGE is doing. My entire philosophy — (booing). I was also proud to vote for President Trump’s one big, beautiful bill last week. This is a generational investment — (booing).”

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Wallace: “(laughs) Can I hear that again? That is like the old-fashioned movies with a laugh track or a groan track. Okay, let me hear it again.”

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HINSON: “At a recent event in Cedar Rapids, I received overwhelmingly positive feedback about the work that DOGE is doing. My entire philosophy — (booing). I was also proud to vote for President Trump’s one big, beautiful bill last week. This is a generational investment — (booing).”

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Wallace: “(laughs) Somewhere in Hollywood, Eddie, they’re like, scrap our groan track, we have something better. That was ruby red, deep red America. Not just ruby red, deep red America. That was ruby red, deep red Iowa. And those were spontaneous groans when she said DOGE and big, beautiful bill. And that was just — that was just a smidge of it. That was one little, little tiny section of a town hall held there by Iowa Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, reading nervously from her notes where she was forced to defend Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular policies and her own party’s, and her own role in capitulating to him. And Elon Musk, who’s so unpopular, decides to follow the one rule and law in Washington, which is the amount of time a person can serve as a special government employee so he could leave. After Republicans spent much of the first few months of the Trump presidency dodging doing this at all, having town halls, specifically when they had to talk about or defend the DOGE cuts, they’re now receiving the same reception as they look to tout Trump’s big, beautiful bill. That groan actually sounded a little bit louder in Iowa. Of course, that big, not so beautiful bill is going to leave millions of Americans, including many of her own constituents, I’m sure, without health insurance, while giving the richest people in her district, or in the country, tax cuts.”