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Madison cawthorne6/25/2023 ![]() He has been stopped twice this year by TSA agents who found a loaded firearm in his luggage. He was charged with driving with a revoked license and ticketed multiple times for speeding. ![]() Cawthorn claimed both were harmless fun and not sexual in nature. ![]() Pictures of Cawthorn in drag emerged, as did video of him lying naked in bed with another man. The cascade of humiliations has continued for months. 6, 2021, that preceded the attack on the U.S. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., endorsed Edwards and said that Cawthorn had “fallen well short of the most basic standards western North Carolina expects from their representatives.”Ĭawthorn at the Trump rally on Jan. “There’s no evidence behind his statements.” “It’s just frustrating,” McCarthy said publicly. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy dressed down Cawthorn. He accused other members of Congress of taking part in sex parties and illicit drug use, and then had to retract those statements and admit that his claims had been “exaggerated.” Then this spring, he lost the support of GOP leaders in Washington. Cawthorn, in an implicit dig at Moore, explained his switch by saying he wanted to make sure an “establishment, go-along-to-get-along Republican” did not win that seat.īut after the North Carolina Supreme Court rejected new congressional maps drawn by the Legislature, Cawthorn said he would switch back to his old district. The Republican House speaker in the state Legislature, Tim Moore, had planned on running for Congress in that district. In November, he announced he would switch congressional districts and run in a newly drawn district where it would be easier for him to win reelection. Last fall, Cawthorn alienated much of the Republican leadership in his home state. 23, 2021, that there was no evidence of election fraud in 2020 - said that “if our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen, then it’s going to lead to one place - and it’s bloodshed.” In August 2021, Cawthorn - who had admitted on Jan. His provocations continued during his first year in office. 6, 2021, that preceded the assault by Trump supporters on the U.S. (Edwards campaign)Īfter the 2020 election in which he won his seat in Congress, Cawthorn loudly echoed Trump’s lies about the results of the presidential election, even speaking at the rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. And more than 150 students at the conservative Patrick Henry College, where Cawthorn studied for one semester before dropping out, accused him of “sexually predatory behavior.” He denied the allegations. Naval Academy, claiming that his injuries in the car accident “derailed” it when in fact he had been rejected by the academy beforehand. He also misled voters in a campaign TV ad about his application to the U.S. He repeatedly gave an inaccurate account of the 2014 accident that was contradicted by official medical documents, eyewitnesses and even his own father. Cawthorn conceded the race to Edwards late Tuesday night, according to CNN.Įven before he arrived in Washington in January 2021, Cawthorn had established himself as someone willing to play fast and loose with the truth. Chuck Edwards by a narrow margin in the Republican primary for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, which contains the state’s westernmost regions. (Chris Seward/AP)Ĭawthorn lost to state Sen. Madison Cawthorn at a rally in Selma, N.C., in April.
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