A fight erupted at a South Carolina polling station after a man was told to remove his “Let’s Go Brandon” hat by poll workers before voting, shocking footage shows.
The man attempted to cast his vote at the old Orangeburg County Library on Wednesday while wearing a camo hat with the expression widely used as shorthand for “F–k Joe Biden.”
He began cursing at poll workers who told him he had to take it off under South Carolina state law.
Video obtained by WIS-TV shows poll workers asking the man to take the cap “outside” before he begins cursing at them.
“You f–cking bitch,” he tells one woman, as the other workers tell him to calm down.
“Shut the hell up and let me vote!” he yells.
A Trump voter was assaulted by South Carolina polling station workers during an argument over his MAGA hat. This comes just one day after Biden called half the country “garbage” and no one in Kamala’s campaign disavowed it. pic.twitter.com/rFJ93mNDpk
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) October 31, 2024
Another female poll worker explains again that they cannot let him vote, and the man removes his hat and hurls it at the person next in line, the clip shows.
The man points his finger in the woman’s face and says something to her, who then begins to hit him.
The poll workers separate the pair initially but the man swings his arms and breaks through and starts to go after the woman who hit him, who exits through a door, video shows.
“Take him outside!” one poll worker repeatedly yells.
Under South Carolina Law, voters are not permitted to wear anything that displays a political party, candidate name or ballot issue.
Although the hat did not name the president — who is not up for reelection — the phrase has been common shorthand since 2021, when an NBC reporter interviewing NASCAR driver Brandon Brown thought chants of “F–k Joe Biden” were “Let’s Go Brandon.”
“The poll manager shall use every reasonable means to keep the area within five hundred feet of any such entrance clear of political literature and displays,” the law states.
“The county and municipal law enforcement officers, upon request of a poll manager, shall remove or cause to be removed any material within five hundred feet of any such entrance distributed or displayed in violation of this section,” it says.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division confirmed to the Post that it investigating the incident but declined to provide additional details.
Early voting in the Palmetto State kicked off on Oct. 21 and runs through Nov. 2.
