Madison Cawthorn | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNorth Carolina's11th district | |
| In office January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Mark Meadows |
| Succeeded by | Chuck Edwards |
| Personal details | |
| Born | David Madison Cawthorn (1995-08-01)August 1, 1995 (age 30) |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse | |
| Education | Patrick Henry College (attended) |
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David Madison Cawthorn (born August 1, 1995) is an American politician who served as theU.S. representative forNorth Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2021 to 2023. A member of theRepublican Party, Cawthorn describes himself as aconstitutional conservative.[1]
After working as a staffer for U.S. RepresentativeMark Meadows, Cawthorn was elected to succeed Meadows in2020 and became the first member of Congress born in the 1990s.[2] His tenure was marked by various controversies, including allegations ofinsider trading, improper payments, bringing a handgun to an airport, and appearing in a leaked nude video.[3] Cawthorn lost renomination in the2022 Republican primary toChuck Edwards, who won the general election.[4][5] In October 2025, Cawthorn announced a campaign to return to Congress, running inFlorida's19th congressional district.[6]
David Madison Cawthorn was born on August 1, 1995,[7] inAsheville, North Carolina, to Priscilla and Roger Cawthorn.[8] He washome-schooled inHendersonville, North Carolina, through 12th grade,[9][10] and played football with the Asheville Saints, a league that includes home-schooled high school students.[11][12] As a teenager, he worked at aChick-fil-A restaurant.[13]
In 2014, at age 18, Cawthorn was seriously injured while returning from a spring break trip toFlorida. He was riding as a passenger in aBMW X3 SUV nearDaytona Beach, Florida, when his friend Bradley Ledford fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle crashed into a concrete barrier while Cawthorn's feet were on the dashboard.[14][15] In a 2017 speech, Cawthorn said that Ledford left him "to die in a fiery tomb", which Ledford has disputed.[11] Ledford said in a sworn deposition for insurance litigation that he pulled an unconscious Cawthorn from the wrecked vehicle immediately after getting out himself; in Cawthorn's deposition, he stated that he had "no memory from the accident".[11] In the same 2017 speech, Cawthorn stated that he was "declared dead on the scene" of the accident, but the official accident report listed him as "incapacitated".[11] The injuries from the accident left Cawthorn partially paralyzed, requiring the use of a wheelchair.[11] He said he accrued $3 million inmedical debt during his recovery;[16] he received that amount as settlement from an insurance company, as well as other payments, and as of February 2021 was seeking $30 million more.[11]
Rep. Meadows had nominated Cawthorn to theUnited States Naval Academy in December 2013,[17] but his application was rejected. Although this happened before his injury, he claimed in advertisements for his 2020 congressional campaign that the accident "derailed" his plans to attend the academy.[13][18][19][20] Cawthorn had acknowledged in 2017 under oath that he had been turned down before the accident.[11] When asked in 2020 about the discrepancy, he said, "I never said I was appointed or accepted to the academy, I knew that I'd only been nominated at that point. I fully expected to be accepted and to be appointed, but at that point I hadn't received it."[21]
During the fall 2016 semester, Cawthorn attendedPatrick Henry College, studyingpolitical science, but earned mostly D grades and dropped out. He said his grades were low primarily because his injuries had interfered with his ability to learn.[13] Cawthorn said in a deposition, "You know, suffering from a brain injury after the accident definitely I think it slowed my brain down a little bit. Made me less intelligent. And the pain also made reading and studying very difficult."[22] He also said he withdrew due to "heartbreak" after his fiancée broke up with him.[20][23]
From January 2015 to August 2016, Cawthorn worked as a staff assistant in U.S. RepresentativeMark Meadows's district office.[24] He told theAsheville Citizen-Times he worked there "full-time", but it was a part-time position.[24]
Cawthorn is the owner and CEO of SPQR Holdings, LLC, areal estate investment firm in Hendersonville. The firm was started in August 2019 and reported no income; Cawthorn is its sole employee.[13] As of August 2020, the company had been involved in only one real estate transaction, purchasing a 6-acre (2.4 ha) property for $20,000, in a foreclosure auction.[25]
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In the March 2020 Republican primary forNorth Carolina's 11th congressional district, Cawthorn finished second behind Lynda Bennett, who had been endorsed both by PresidentDonald Trump and Meadows, who had becomeWhite House Chief of Staff.[26][27] But Bennett did not receive the required 30% of the vote to avoid a runoff and Cawthorn won the June runoff overwhelmingly.[28] He was supported by many local leaders and endorsed byMark Walker, the vice chairman of theHouse Republican Conference.[26][29] His victory has been called anupset.[30][31] Cawthorn benefited from false and misleading claims that Bennett was a "Never-Trumper".[11]
In a July 2020 event at the Texas border, Cawthorn declared, without providing evidence, that there was "a large group of cartels, kidnapping our American children and then taking them to sell them on a slave market, a sex slave market".[11]
During the 2020 general campaign, his Democratic opponent drew attention to a 2017 CawthornInstagram post with a picture of his visit toAdolf Hitler's vacation residenceEagle's Nest, which he said had been on his "bucket list for a while",[32][33][34] generating allegations offar-right sympathies.[32][35] He had referred to Hitler as "theFührer", which had been Hitler's official title, and called Hitler "a supreme evil".[32][36] In response, Cawthorn called the allegations that he was awhite supremacist ridiculous, saying that he "completely and wholeheartedly denounce[s] any kind ofwhite nationalism, any kind ofNazism".[19][32][35] TheAnti-Defamation League's analystMark Pitcavage said he did not see much merit in the accusations against Cawthorn.[32][35] Some Jewish residents of his congressional district expressed concern about the incident, includingEsther Manheimer, mayor ofAsheville, the district's largest city.[34] Cawthorn deleted the Instagram post on August 10.[36]
Cawthorn spoke on the third day of the2020 Republican National Convention.[37] During his election bid, Cawthorn's campaign created a website to criticize journalist Tom Fiedler, who had produced investigative pieces on Cawthorn and had written favorably about his opponent. The website accused Fiedler of leaving academia "to work for non-white males, likeCory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office."[38][39] The sentence on the website was later modified to claim Fiedler is "an unapologetic defender of left-wingidentity politics".[38] Cawthorn released a statement saying he had intended "to condemn" such political opinion as being "dangerous and divisive"[39] and said that he "condemned racism and identity politics throughout [his] campaign."[39]Ben Mathis-Lilley, writing forSlate, said that Cawthorn's apology was "not an apology for attacking the journalist in question, Tom Fiedler, as atraitor to his race."[40]
In the November general election, Cawthorn defeated Democratic nomineeMoe Davis. He took office on January 3, 2021.[2][41] Upon hearing he had won, he tweeted, "cry more, lib".[42][43][44]
Cawthorn was the youngest Republican to serve in the117th Congress, and, at 25, was one of theyoungest members ever elected to the House of Representatives.[30][45] He is also the first member of Congress born in the 1990s.[46]
In November 2021, Cawthorn announced that instead of running for re-election in North Carolina's 11th district he would instead run in thenew 13th congressional district, which includesCleveland County and other counties west ofCharlotte.[47][48] Most of Cawthorn's former territory, including his home in Hendersonville, had become the14th district, but members of Congress are not required to live in the district they represent but merely in the same state.[49] He wrote onTwitter that he was running in the 13th district because otherwise "another establishment, go-along-to-get-along Republican would prevail there." Describing some of Cawthorn's political missteps and disputes in his home district, theAsheville Citizen-Times wrote: "The emerging opposition to Cawthorn in his current district appears to provide a political rationale for skipping into the new 13th Congressional District."[50] Cawthorn later filed to run again in the 11th district, afternew maps were approved in February.[51]
On May 17, 2022, Cawthorn was defeated by Republican primary challengerChuck Edwards, a state senator and fellow Henderson County resident, by a margin of 33.4–31.9%.[52] Cawthorn conceded the race later that day.[53] Edwards had been supported by SenatorThom Tillis and most of theNorth Carolina General Assembly.[53] Railing against "the cowardly and weak members of our own party", Cawthorn wrote: "It's time for the rise of the new right, it's time for Dark MAGA to truly take command."[54][55] "Dark MAGA" references a fringe movement advocating a vengeful return ofTrumpism.[56]
In January 2022, a group of North Carolina voters formally challenged Cawthorn's qualifications to run again, "citing his participation in a rally last January in Washington that questioned the presidential election outcome and preceded theCapitol riot." The challenge is based onSection 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits anyone who has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the U.S. government from holding public office. Under North Carolina law, the burden is on Cawthorn to show through a preponderance of the evidence that he is not an insurrectionist.[57][58] The challenge was on hold while redistricting litigation continued.[59][60]
Cawthorn filed suit in theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina to dismiss the challenge before the state elections board could hear it. TheNorth Carolina Attorney General's office, citing a1919 application of the amendment to a congressman who had violated theEspionage Act, argued that the 14th Amendment could apply to Cawthorn "if a state board determines he aided or encouraged the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol." In March 2022, Chief JudgeRichard Myers of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled in Cawthorn's favor based on theAmnesty Act that gave amnesty toex-Confederates following theAmerican Civil War.[61][62][63] However, on May 24, 2022, theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the federal district court ruling and instead ruled that the Amnesty Act applied only to people who committed "constitutionally wrongful acts" before 1872.[64][65] The appeals court did not determine whether Cawthorn is eligible for office; it only determined that the Amnesty Act does not shield him from disqualification.[66][67]
On October 1, 2025, Cawthorn announced a campaign to return to Congress, now running inFlorida's19th congressional district, held by RepublicanByron Donalds. Cawthorn had moved to Florida after his Congressional term ended in 2023.[6] Donalds is not running for re-election, and is insteadrunning forGovernor of Florida. Cawthorn toldFox News that he was inspired to run after the conservative commentator and activistCharlie Kirk wasshot and killed four weeks earlier,[68] thoughAxios reported that Cawthorn had been meeting with Republicans in Washington to lay the groundwork for a campaign at least a week before Kirk's assassination.[69] Should Cawthorn be elected, he would be the first person to represent two separate states in Congress sinceEd Foreman served one term representingTexas's16th congressional district from 1963 to 1965 and one term representingNew Mexico's2nd congressional district from 1969 to 1971. Another candidate for the Florida seat,Chris Collins, also previously served in Congress from a different state, having representedNew York's27th congressional district from 2013 to 2019.
The Washington Post reported that during his candidacy and time in Congress, Cawthorn became known for incendiary rhetoric and for promulgating conspiracy theories.[11] He had said he intended to use his position to be a messenger rather than a legislator, writing to his colleagues, "I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation."[70] Cawthorn subsequently closed all but one district office.[71]
In December 2020, at aTurning Point USA conference inFlorida, Cawthorn said that he wouldtry to contest the2020 presidential election results when Congress counted theElectoral College votes in January, citing fraud, though there was no evidence that fraud affected the election results.[72][73] He subsequently used conspiracy theories about fraud to run advertisements and raise money for himself.[74] He called on the TPUSA event's attendees to "lightly threaten" their representatives.[75]
Cawthorn took his seat as a member of Congress at the start of the117th Congress on January 3, 2021.[76]
Before Trump supportersstormed the United States Capitol on January 6, Cawthorn addressed the crowd and said, "this crowd has some fight."[77] He voted not to certify the Electoral College results in Congress[44] and called Republicans who voted to certify the results "spineless cowards".[44] He repeated thefalse conspiracy theories that there was widespread fraud in the election.[11] After the riots, Cawthorn denounced the violence and said, "The party as a whole should have been much more wise about their choice of words."[78] He later attempted to blame the riots on a "Democratic machine" of "agitators strategically placed inside of this group", amid intensifying calls for his resignation for his part in stoking the riots.[79]
On January 20, the day ofJoe Biden's inauguration, Cawthorn was one of seventeen newly elected House Republicans to sign a letter congratulating him and expressing hope of bipartisan cooperation.[80] On January 22, 2021, the government watchdog groupCampaign for Accountability asked theOffice of Congressional Ethics to investigate Cawthorn's role in the January 6 Capitol riot.[81][82]
On January 23, onCNN Newsroom,Pamela Brown asked Cawthorn about his views of the election results. He said, "You know, the Constitution allowed for us to be able to push back as much as we could and I did that to the amount of the constitutional limits that I had at my disposal. So now I would say that Joseph R. Biden is our president".[83] According toTime, Cawthorn was "trying to have it both ways. One day, he's preaching about respecting the office of the Presidency and vowing to work across the aisle with Democratic colleagues. The next, he's trumpeting dangerous conspiracies to right-wing crowds and commentators."[70]
In late February 2021, Cawthorn and a dozen other Republican House members skipped votes andenlisted others to vote for them, citing the ongoingCOVID-19 pandemic. But he and the other members were actually attending theConservative Political Action Conference, which was held at the same time as their absences.[84] In response, theCampaign for Accountability, an ethics watchdog group, filed a complaint with theHouse Committee on Ethics and requested an investigation into Cawthorn and the other lawmakers.[85] In July 2021, another ethics complaint was filed against Cawthorn by an aide to RepresentativeDavid McKinley after Cawthorn first scolded a McKinley aide and later got into a shouting match with McKinley over being listed as a co-sponsor of McKinley's bill.[86]
At an August 2021 Republican Party event inMacon County, Cawthorn said: "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." He then said, "as much as I am willing to defend our liberty at all costs, there is nothing that I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American", with the only way to prevent that being "election security".[87]
In October 2021, Cawthorn said, "our culture today is trying to completely de-masculate [sic] all of the young men", because "they don't want people who are going to stand up". He issued a call to mothers, who he said are the "most vicious" conservatives: "If you are raising a young man, please raise them to be a monster".[88] In November 2021, Cawthorn accused politicians of "trying to make everyone genderless, sexless, and just absolutely Godless", and declared that Americans "want our culture back, and if you want to stand in the way of that, we will run you over."[89]
Cawthorn reacted to the not guilty verdict in thetrial of Kyle Rittenhouse by offeringRittenhouse an internship, saying, "You have a right to defend yourself, so be armed, be dangerous and be moral".[90]
During the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cawthorn called Ukrainian presidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy a "thug" and said "the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies."[91] Cawthorn wrote on Twitter that his comments were based on Zelenskyy's having allegedly spread misinformation directed at Americans.Alyssa Farah Griffin, for whom Cawthorn once interned, condemned his comments as based on ignorance and spreadingRussian propaganda.[92]
In a March 2022 interview, Cawthorn talked about "the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington" and said he had been invited to an orgy by an unnamed lawmaker. He also claimed that prominent Washington figures had used cocaine in front of him.[93] In a closed-door meeting, multiple House Republicans complained about his comments.[94] Members of theFreedom Caucus considered ejecting Cawthorn from its membership.[95] House Minority LeaderKevin McCarthy and Minority WhipSteve Scalise then met with Cawthorn.[94] McCarthy later told reporters that Cawthorn had admitted his claims were exaggerated or untrue: "He changes what he tells and that's not becoming of a congressman. He did not tell the truth [and] that's unacceptable." McCarthy said he had told Cawthorn that "He's lost my trust. He's going to have to earn it back."[96]
In April 2022, SenatorThom Tillis called for an investigation into Cawthorn for possible violations of theSTOCK Act, stating that Cawthorn's purchase of an anti-Biden "Let's Go Brandon"cryptocurrency without disclosure may have violatedinsider trading rules for members of Congress.[97][98] By December 2022, it was reported that Cawthorn had violated the STOCK Act a total of three times that year for failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of sales in Let's Go Brandon coin,Bitcoin, andEthereum.[99][100][101]
Also in April 2022, American Muckrakers PAC requested an ethics investigation of Cawthorn's relationship with his aide Stephen Smith,[102] Cawthorn'ssecond cousin.[103] The request said that Cawthorn had provided more than $250 worth of free housing and travel to Smith in violation of House rules. American Muckrakers provided documents that appeared to show that Smith lived for free in a house owned by Cawthorn.[102] The request also alleged that the two may have had a sexual relationship.[104] It alleged that Smith went with Cawthorn on his honeymoon and mentioned "a video that appears to show Smith placing his hand on Cawthorn's crotch".[102] Sexual relationships between lawmakers and staffers are prohibited.[104]
In May 2022,The Daily Beast reported that Blake Harp, Cawthorn's chief of staff, who was paid $131,278 in that position in 2021, also received $73,237 in that year from Cawthorn's campaign, despite House ethics rules that limit senior staff to earning $29,595 in outside income each year. Harp has also received payments from the campaign committee of Harp's mother, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress.[105] Harp was Cawthorn's campaign manager in 2020, becoming chief of staff in 2021.[106]
On November 16, 2022, Joel Burgess of theAsheville Citizen-Times wrote Cawthorn had vacated and shut down his offices two months before the end of his term.[107] He subsequently purchased a $1.1 million dollar home in Florida.[107] Responding to the news that constituent services calls were not being handled, Rep.-elect Chuck Edwards—who had defeated Cawthorn in the Republican congressional primary, and won the general election—invited people to contact his state senate office instead.[108]
During his 2020 campaign, Cawthorn said that he would "like to be the face of the Republican Party when it comes to health care."[16]
Cawthorn identifies as aconstitutional conservative and describes his position on abortion rights as pro-life oranti-abortion.[1] In 2021, he joined theHouse Freedom Caucus, a caucus of conservative House Republicans.[109] He describes himself as "fiscally conservative", says his stance on immigration is "conservative", and supports legal gun ownership, opposinggun control legislation.[1]
Cawthorn supports legalsame-sex marriage, but opposesgender transition treatments for minors.[110][111][112] He also supportsremoving Confederate statues because they commemoratesecession from the United States,[113] though in June 2021 he voted against a bill that would remove statues ofwhite supremacists and Confederates from the United States Capitol.[114] In 2022, Cawthorn voted against theRespect for Marriage Act, legislation to codify same-sex marriage into federal law.[115][116][117]
Cawthorn has said thatclimate change is "pretty minimal".[113]
Cawthorn falsely asserted that the2020 presidential election was fraudulent, though he backtracked on the claim during a January 2021CNN interview withPamela Brown.[118][119][120]
Cawthorn sponsored H.R. 6206, the American Tech Workforce Act of 2021, introduced by RepresentativeJim Banks. The legislation would establish a wage floor for the high-skill H-1B visa program, thereby significantly reducing employer dependence on the program. The bill would also eliminate the Optional Practical Training program that allows foreign graduates to stay and work in the United States.[121]
Cawthorn describes himself as a Christian. He has an older brother named Zachary.[124]
Cawthorn married Cristina Bayardelle, a college student and competitiveCrossFit athlete,[125][126] in a December 2020 civil ceremony,[127] followed by an April 2021 outdoor ceremony.[128] In December 2021, Cawthorn announced they were getting divorced.[129]
Cawthorn relocated from North Carolina to Cape Coral, Florida, after his term in Congress ended in 2023.[6]
Cawthorn said that he trained inwheelchair racing for the2020 Summer Paralympics, but never competed at a qualifying level and was not involved in a team.[130][131]
In August 2020, during Cawthorn's campaign for Congress, several women accused him of sexually aggressive behavior, sexual misconduct, andsexual assault.[18][132][133][134]
Katrina Krulikas described an incident when she was 17 and Cawthorn was 19 in which he pressured her to sit on his lap and attempted to kiss her forcibly twice, which she resisted.[11] Cawthorn did not deny the allegations, but said, "I did try and kiss her, just very normal, just in a flirtatious way", adding, "If I did make her feel unsafe, I feel bad", but questioned the timing of her allegation.[135] His campaign characterized Krulikas's allegations as politically motivated, which she denied.[134]
After Krulikas made her allegations, three other women made allegations of sexual misconduct against Cawthorn, including forcible grabbing and kissing.[132] One woman said Cawthorn called her "just a little blonde, slutty American girl" when she rejected his sexual advances.[11][20]
On October 17, 2020, a group ofPatrick Henry College alumni released a public letter accusing Cawthorn of "sexually predatory behavior" while he was a student there for a little more than one semester, as well as of vandalism and lying. The letter originally had ten signatories but the number increased to over 150 alumni in less than a week. Cawthorn claimed that most of the signers did not know him personally and his campaign posted a response letter of support for him signed by six alumni, two of whom work for Cawthorn's campaign. Cawthorn's response letter implied support by former Patrick Henry College PresidentMichael Farris; Farris disavowed the support letter and asked that he not be associated with it.[136]
A February 2021BuzzFeed News investigation found 20 people who said that Cawthorn had harassed his female classmates during college; the reporters spoke to four women who said he had harassed them. It was alleged that Cawthorn often recklessly drove women in his car to remote areas off campus while asking them sexual questions: he reportedly called these journeys "fun drives". Tworesident assistants said they warned women to avoid Cawthorn and not to ride in his car. A male acquaintance said Cawthorn bragged about pulling a woman into his lap and putting a finger between her legs.[20]
On May 4, 2022, a video began circulating online that showed Cawthorn naked in bed, thrusting his genitals toward another man's face while moaning. Cawthorn said of the video, "Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. We were acting foolish, and joking. That's it."[137] He called the video "blackmail" on Twitter after he had released an eight-minute video addressing it and other controversies.[138]
In February 2021,Transportation Security Administration agents at theAsheville Regional Airport discovered an unloadedGlock 9mm handgun and loaded magazine in Cawthorn's carry-on bag. A spokesman for Cawthorn said the gun, magazine, and ammunition were meant to have been stowed in his checked luggage.[139]
In March 2022, Cawthorn was charged with driving while his license was revoked and while two speeding tickets were pending. He faced possible time in jail.[94] Later that month, he agreed to a lesser improper speedometer charge for an October 2021 ticket inBuncombe County and paid over $200 in fines and fees.[140] A 2017 charge of driving on a revoked license had been dismissed.[141] Cawthorn had court dates inPolk and Cleveland counties in June 2022 for speeding and driving with a revoked license.[4] His Polk County court date (for speeding in January 2022) was moved to February 2023,[142] and his revoked license charge was dismissed by the Cleveland County district attorney's office in late 2022.[143] Cawthorn moved to Florida after leaving political office and his attorney entered a guilty plea to a lesser speeding charge with a fine of about $200 in a deal that resolved his driving offenses.[144]
In April 2022, Cawthorn was briefly detained at an airport inCharlotte, North Carolina, for attempting to board a commercial flight with a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage. Police said he was cooperative, and he was cited for possession of a dangerous weapon on city property.[145] On May 5, 2023, Cawthorn pleaded guilty and was fined $250.[146]
In April 2024, Cawthorn received a traffic citation in Florida when he crashed his car into a state trooper vehicle in a construction zone.[147]
On September 11, 2025, Cawthorn was arrested in Florida after failing to appear in court the previous day, for a citation he received for driving without a license. He was released on a $2,000 bond. In a statement, Cawthorn stated that he missed the hearing "due to a scheduling misunderstanding."[148]
In April 2025, Cawthorn paid a $17,458 fine to theFederal Election Commission (FEC) pursuant to his duties as treasurer of his campaign committee. In 2022 the campaign committee, named MADISON PAC, missed filing a quarterly financial report with the FEC. In 2024 the FEC assessed a civil penalty against Cawthorn. Cawthorn paid the fine about half a year later after the FEC threatened to seize assets. He also terminated the campaign committee.[149][150]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Lynda Bennett | 20,606 | 22.7 | |
| Republican | Madison Cawthorn | 18,481 | 20.4 | |
| Republican | Jim Davis | 17,465 | 19.3 | |
| Republican | Chuck Archerd | 8,272 | 9.1 | |
| Republican | Wayne King | 7,876 | 8.7 | |
| Republican | Dan Driscoll | 7,803 | 8.6 | |
| Republican | Joey Osborne | 6,470 | 7.1 | |
| Republican | Vance Patterson | 2,242 | 2.5 | |
| Republican | Matthew Burril | 523 | 0.6 | |
| Republican | Albert Wiley Jr. | 393 | 0.4 | |
| Republican | Dillon Gentry | 390 | 0.4 | |
| Republican | Steve Fekete Jr. | 175 | 0.2 | |
| Total votes | 90,696 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Madison Cawthorn | 30,636 | 65.8 | |
| Republican | Lynda Bennett | 15,905 | 34.2 | |
| Total votes | 46,541 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Madison Cawthorn | 245,351 | 54.5 | |
| Democratic | Moe Davis | 190,609 | 42.4 | |
| Libertarian | Tracey DeBruhl | 8,682 | 1.9 | |
| Green | Tamara Zwinak | 5,503 | 1.2 | |
| Total votes | 450,145 | 100.0 | ||
| Republicanhold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Chuck Edwards | 29,496 | 33.4 | |
| Republican | Madison Cawthorn (incumbent) | 28,112 | 31.9 | |
| Republican | Matthew Burril | 8,341 | 9.5 | |
| Republican | Bruce O'Connell | 6,037 | 6.9 | |
| Republican | Rod Honeycutt | 5,775 | 6.5 | |
| Republican | Michele Woodhouse | 4,668 | 5.3 | |
| Republican | Wendy Nevarez | 4,525 | 5.1 | |
| Republican | Kristie Sluder | 1,304 | 1.5 | |
| Total votes | 88,258 | 100.0 | ||
The question currently before us, however, is not whether Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment would (or would not) disqualify Representative Cawthorn from future federal or state service, and this appeal cannot result in an order declaring Representative Cawthorn constitutionally qualified (or unqualified) for further service in the House of Representatives. Instead, the question before us is: Regardless of whether Section 3 would otherwise disqualify Representative Cawthorn, does the 1872 Amnesty Act nevertheless authorize him to serve?
At a Turning Point USA event in December, Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina encouraged attendees to "call your congressman and feel free — you can lightly threaten them." "Say: 'If you don't support election integrity, I'm coming after you. Madison Cawthorn's coming after you. Everybody's coming after you.
Cawthorn's scheduler, Stephen Smith, is his distant cousin. Cawthorn described Smith as "the grandson of my grandmother's sister" in a 2017 deposition...
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
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