(CNN) Days after Sen. Richard Burr issued a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr. to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the North Carolina Republican's decision continues to reverberate throughout his home state, especially among Republicans.

On a day when North Carolinians are going to the polls for a primary in a special election for a US House seat, some GOP voters were troubled by Burr's role in issuing the subpoena while other Republicans appeared ready to give their senior senator the benefit of the doubt.

"I think I'm going to wait and see what his reasons were, why he's doing it, what the purpose is," Kelly Allgood, who said she did not want to have a knee-jerk reaction, told CNN in an interview Tuesday.

"He's served and he's done a good job," Allgood added, "and I don't think of him as someone that goes out there and does things that don't make sense."

The three-term senator serves as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and has faced criticism from fellow Republicans across Capitol Hill -- and from President Donald Trump himself -- over his decision to subpoena Trump Jr. to return to his committee and testify. Trump Jr. reached a deal Tuesday with the committee to testify behind closed doors in mid-June

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