The Republican from Western North Carolina decided to host the event despite recent protests at GOP town halls. And he said he’d do it again.

Rep. Chuck Edwards made it less than a minute into his opening remarks Thursday night, at his first town hall since being re-elected last November, before the crowd drowned him out for the first time.

Jay Carey, a retired disabled veteran who was escorted out of Thursday’s Republican Congressman Chuck Edwards’ town hall says he has no regret.During the town h