Madison Cawthorn, an enthusiastic promoter of a second Donald Trump Presidency, said that he aims to help set the agenda for the moment when Republicans return to power in Congress—and to wrench the Party further to the right.
’s laugh and said that journalists are “literally coming just shy of spitting on me” in the halls of Congress. “I look around and I see, ‘O.K., you’re socialists and you work for a fake-news company that’s trying to profiteer off creating division and hatred.” As dozens of young people lined up to take selfies with Cawthorn, Tristin Goode, an eighteen-year-old student, said that he was thrilled by the performance.
Despite Cawthorn’s national profile and connections to Trump, some prominent North Carolina Republicans are trying to defeat him this fall, based on concerns about his character and his role in the uprising on. In last year’s Republican primary, Cawthorn owed a significant debt to George H. Erwin, Jr., a retired Hendersonville sheriff who commended him to sheriffs and politicians scattered across the district’s seventeen counties.
Cawthorn’s opponents have been aided by questions about his personal history that emerged during the 2020 campaign. Two assertions, central to his political profile and later shown to be false, are connected to the car crash that left him partially paralyzed. He was asleep in the passenger seat of a BMW X3, his feet on the dashboard, when the driver, Bradley Ledford, dozed off. The car sped off the road and smashed into a concrete barrier.
As Cawthorn runs for reëlection, one opposition group, run by Democrats, is pushing local authorities to file charges against him for trying to carry a gun onto a commercial flight at Asheville’s airport, and for repeatedly carrying a hunting knife onto school and educational property, in defiance of state law. Another group, the conservative Sentinel
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