A Republican state representative said he showed up to a town hall for vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Wednesday only to find that he no longer had a place to sit. While State Rep. Niraj Antani (R-Ohio) had initially been seated in a VIP area for elected officials, he says he was relegated to the general admission section because of a tweet he'd written about Donald Trump:
Though Pence called Antani after the event to apologize for the "misunderstanding," Antani said he probably won't be endorsing Trump now. "I don't care about the tweet, I don't care abut the seating, this is more how they treat people who weren't with them in the primary," he said. "This is how they treat someone whose willing to come on board. I wonder how they treat people who are against them."
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