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For months now, polling has made it clear that President Donald Trump’s agenda is not very popular with voters. Republican lawmakers seem to be feeling the brunt of it; since March, many of them have stopped holding town halls entirely, on the advice of House Speaker Mike Johnson .

At a few town halls that went ahead, things got heated. In Kansas back in March, for example, Republican Sen. Roger Marshall held a town hall with an angry crowd who demanded explanations for the Trump administration’s decisions to shrink federal agencies and limit rural health care, and the waning support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood similarly

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