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https://www.businessinsider.com/quinn-mitchell-ron-desantis-squirm-thrown-out-gop-event-police-2023-10
The 15-year-old aspiring journalist Quinn Mitchell, known for his pointed questioning of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was thrown out of a Republican Party event by police on Friday, the Boston Globe first reported.
Mitchell, a political enthusiast, was escorted out of the First in the Nation Leadership Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire (NH).
He had gained notoriety after he asked DeSantis at a June town hall in Hollis, NH, if he believed "that Trump violated the peaceful transfer of power, a key principle of American democracy that we must uphold?"
The question provoked the governor's uncomfortable, evasive response, and the encounter garnered much attention online.
In a separate incident at a July 4 parade, Mitchell told CNN that he was subjected to "physical intimidation" by some members of DeSantis' security team.
He added that he thought it was a "restriction of free speech" and that it was "very concerning they're willing to go to that extent to just shut down a very simple question about January 6."
Despite becoming somewhat accustomed to such steely responses, Mitchell did not expect to be thrown out of Friday's event.
"I knew that DeSantis was gonna speak there," Mitchell said in a podcast episode where he went through the events of that day. "So I knew there might be some 'never back down' people who knew who I was."
The 15-year-old aspiring journalist Quinn Mitchell, known for his pointed questioning of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, was thrown out of a Republican Party event by police on Friday, the Boston Globe first reported.
Mitchell, a political enthusiast, was escorted out of the First in the Nation Leadership Summit in Nashua, New Hampshire (NH).
He had gained notoriety after he asked DeSantis at a June town hall in Hollis, NH, if he believed "that Trump violated the peaceful transfer of power, a key principle of American democracy that we must uphold?"
The question provoked the governor's uncomfortable, evasive response, and the encounter garnered much attention online.
In a separate incident at a July 4 parade, Mitchell told CNN that he was subjected to "physical intimidation" by some members of DeSantis' security team.
He added that he thought it was a "restriction of free speech" and that it was "very concerning they're willing to go to that extent to just shut down a very simple question about January 6."
Despite becoming somewhat accustomed to such steely responses, Mitchell did not expect to be thrown out of Friday's event.
"I knew that DeSantis was gonna speak there," Mitchell said in a podcast episode where he went through the events of that day. "So I knew there might be some 'never back down' people who knew who I was."
