A man was punched in the face during an altercation at a Saline County Republican Committee meeting in Benton, Arkansas, on Thursday, September 5.Video filmed by Kenny Wallis of JustTheRightAngle on Rumble shows a man identified as Jimmie Cavin punching Saline County Republican Committee member Johnathan Newcomb after Newcomb approached him in a tense moment on Thursday night.In a post on Facebook on Friday, Cavin admitted to punching Newcomb and said it was in “self defense.”According to Cavin, Newcomb had made a disparaging remark to a woman named Kandi Cox about her nose ring. After a tense moment between Cox and another woman at the microphone, Cavin said Newcomb was intimidating Cox and he verbally confronted him.“I was standing at the back of the room and when I saw what [Newcomb] was doing, I moved to go stand by Kandi