Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt urged police to intervene following a standoff at a polling place on Election Day.
Leavitt, who left the administration in August, shared a video on X Tuesday depicting a confrontation between an 18-year-old man and an older man outside a New Hampshire polling station.
After the two exchange words, the older man flips off the younger man, slaps him in the face and storms off.
The video was originally posted by Turning Point Action, a conservative organization, which wrote: “an 18-year-old stood his ground at the polls in New Hampshire today and was assaulted for it.”
“More despicable behavior from the Left,” Leavitt, who is from New Hampshire, wrote in her post. “I trust New Hampshire law enforcement will take care of this ASAP. This young man with @TPAction calmly made his points, and this left-wing nut job assaulted him.”
It’s unclear who the two men are or exactly where the confrontation took place. The video opens with the older man speaking to the younger man beneath a tent next to a parking lot.
“You have no idea who I am, so how dare you say I don’t know much?” the older man says.
“You haven’t presented a single statistic,” the 18-year-old responds.
“Neither have you,” the older man interrupts. “God damn, I cannot believe that bull****. You sit there and dare to look me in the face and say I don't know anything?”
“That’s what I know,” he says, flashing a middle finger in the other man’s face. He then slaps him across the face and says, “f*** you,” before walking away. An individual off camera can be heard saying, “Call the cops.”
The standoff came as millions of Americans headed to the polls to vote in the midterm elections, which will determine which party controls Congress for the next two years.
Polls suggest the Republican Party could suffer steep losses, driven by voter frustration over the Iran war and the cost of living.
Administration officials are “cautiously optimistic,” a White House official told The Independent.
“The President has left it all out on the field, and he’s done everything that was needed,” the official said. “Republicans are in a better spot now than they were four weeks ago.”
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