When you go in to hug someone from the front, they have the opportunity to lean in or move back if they don’t want to do that — plus what you are talking about is constituents in a meet and greet. What happened in this case was a sneak attack from behind with no warning perpetrated on someone who he was trying to help get elected — a colleague.
And the hair sniffing is just fucking creepy and not appropriate under any circumstances. It’s really amusing to me how someone who wants to maintain control over their own body is considered a narcissist by you. Says a whole lot about how you feel about men’s entitlement to women’s bodies.