Making multiple false statements about this year's election, President Donald Trump has repeatedly called on his supporters to carefully watch polling locations.<br />I am urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully, because that's what has to happen. I am urging them to do it. US President Donald Trump<br />Now, Business Insider reports it seems a former Republican lawmaker in North Carolina took Trump's exhortations a bit too much to heart.<br />Former Wake County commissioner Gary Pendleton was charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly assaulting a poll worker on Friday.<br />Pendleton said he was 'observing' at the polling location in Wake Forest at the direction of the county Republican Party.<br />He tried to enter the polling place thirty minutes before it officially opened. After security refused him entry, he tried to get around the worker.<br />When the worker blocked him, Pendleton pushed the worker back. He was cited a Class 3 misdemeanor.
