Republican Presidential longshot candidate Asa Hutchinson — who has in the past been critical of former President Donald Trump — was relentlessly booed during a speech at an event organized by a pro-Trump group on Sunday.
After he entered the stage at the Turning Point Action Conference, in West Palm Beach (Florida), the audience began to jeer the former Arkansas Governor.
When Hutchinson asked for a protest, they also heckled and chanted Trump’s name. “respect for those that might have differing opinion.”
On CNN, former Republican National Committee communications director Doug Heye suggested it was because Trump’s base only want to hear the former president’s talking points on loop.
Watch Heye’s comments here: