Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Sunday defended a confrontation with an angry voter at a town hall meeting over immigration reform, saying, “that’s what town halls are supposed to be about — that’s why they’re always packed.”
“We don’t screen anyone who comes to our town hall meetings,” McCain said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Now I didn’t believe that person was correct with his facts so I fired back at him. And people said, ‘Good, that’s what we want to hear, this is a debate we want to hear.’ So I’m proud of that, and if anybody doesn’t like it, then you don’t have to come to the town hall meeting.”
The tensions in McCain’s town hall meeting provoked speculation about whether opposition from the conservative base of the GOP would make it impossible for lawmakers to reach a deal on immigration reform. McCain denied Sunday that this was the case.
