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Trump fan starts fighting with poll workers over his Trump hat
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Trump fan starts fighting with poll workers over his Trump hat

A Trump supporter was caught on video verbally and physically attacking poll workers who told him he couldn’t wear his pro-Trump hat near the polling location, according to state law.

South Carolina authorities are investigate an incident that was caught viral video in which a man in a “Let’s go Brandon.” This caused unrest at an early voting location in Orangeburg, South Carolina:

POLL STAFF: You won’t be able to….

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP FAN: Fucking bitch!

CAMERA PERSON: Oh wow!

(CROSSTALK)

Sir, listen, don’t insult me….

TRUMP FAN: It’s my motherfucker, right here!

SURVEY OFFICER: (INAUDIBLE).

TRUMP FAN: So shut up and let me vote!

POLL STAFF: We have nothing else to say! We cannot serve you! We will continue.

TRUMP FAN: (THROWS HAT) There it is, right there!

SURVEY OFFICER: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

TRUMP FAN: (GABS POLL OPERATOR’S HANDS – SHE BACKS BACK).

POLL STAFF: Don’t do that!

CAMERA PERSON: My God. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

(TRUMP FAN ADVANCES – POLL WORKERS HOLD TRUMP FAN BACK).

SURVEY EMPLOYEE: TAKE HIM OUTSIDE!

According to at WIS10“The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating the fight”:

According to sources, the Orangeburg County Department of Public Safety responded to the fight.

South Carolina law restricts what people can wear to vote. Voters are not allowed to wear anything that displays a political party, candidate’s name or voting issue.

The law states: “The returning officer shall use all reasonable means to keep the area within five hundred feet of any such entrance free from political publications and displays, and law enforcement officers of the county and municipality, upon request of a returning officer, shall remove or cause to be removed any material within five hundred feet of such entrance distributed or displayed in violation of this section.

The fight followed several incidents at polling places, including that of another Trump fan. who wielded a machete among supporters of the vice president Kamala Harris.

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