‘The Weeknight’ co-hosts on town hall outrage: GOP is ‘not going to get away with this’

‘The Weeknight’ co-hosts on town hall outrage: GOP is ‘not going to get away with this’ “These town halls demonstrate that the people are, in fact, paying attention,” Symone Sanders Townsend said Tuesday.

Aug. 13, 2025, 4:09 PM EDT

By Allison Detzel

For the first time in more than eight years, Rep. Doug LaMalfa came face to face with his constituents at a town hall, and things didn’t exactly go great for the seventh-term California Republican. During the event, LaMalfa was repeatedly booed and jeered as he tried to defend Donald Trump’s massive budget bill, which slashed funding for Medicaid.

Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders Townsend, co-hosts of “The Weeknight,” said Monday’s town hall was yet another example of Americans expressing their unhappiness with Republicans r