Republicans have just elected a man who was charged with assault the day before. Lol.
To be fair, most of the vote was cast via early voting before he attacked the reporter, and some may not have heard the news quickly enough to affect their vote (esp. as the local NBC affiliate refused to cover the story–they were recently bought by the right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group).
To be fairer, he was a raging asshole long before he starting hurling people to the floor and even the early voters would have known this.