Madison Cawthorn

The congressman has been mocked online for tweet sent after GOP ousted Cheney from her leadership position, as well as a "cry more" tweet from 2020.

The Talented Mr. Ripley of the House, a degenerate liar, fabulist and fascist weirdo is leaving the room. The unsubstantiated claims brought widespread condemnation of Cawthorn from the GOP, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying the 26-year-old had "lost his trust" and the remarks were "not becoming of a congressman." Steve Schmidt, a former GOP strategist and founder of The Lincoln Project, added: "Goodbye Madison. "You have disgraced yourself utterly, completely and totally. Replying to the 2020 tweet on Tuesday night, Dr Jorge A Caballero, an anesthesiologist and co-founder of the volunteer organization Coders Against COVID, wrote: "Look at the bright side: at least you have more time to attend the GOP coke parties." "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye Liz Cheney," Cawthorn tweeted at the time. In response, a number of high-profile figures are resharing a year-old tweet in which Cawthorn mocked Liz Cheney after the GOP voted to remove the Wyoming congresswoman and frequent Donald Trump critic from her leadership position in May 2021.

Rep Madison Cawthorn was defeated in Tuesday's Republican primary by Chuck Edwards, a member of the North Carolina state senate, in a surprising loss during a ...

Tuesday’s result is a sign that Donald Trump’s endorsement is not enough to carry a candidate with significant baggage past the finish line in every race. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy painted him as a liar after Mr Cawthorn alleged that his colleagues were doing cocaine and inviting him to orgies, and he was unable to secure the endorsement of a single member of North Carolina’s congressional delegation. He was accused of driving on a revoked license and cited for carrying a gun into an airport, and that doesn’t even begin to touch on his newly-erupted feud with Republican leadership. “I’ve had the opportunity to show them that track record” in the state senate, he added. “But we also supported Chuck when he was in the state House.” Rep Madison Cawthorn was defeated in Tuesday’s Republican primary by Chuck Edwards, a member of the North Carolina state senate, in a surprising loss during a busy night of primary elections.

North Carolina's GOP establishment exacted its revenge on the freshman congressman, who was backed by Donald Trump.

“I think when he said that he was the first politician to grow up with the cellphone, it’s very accurate,” he said. Cawthorn has blamed everyone but himself for his troubles, including so-called establishment RINOs, Republicans In Name Only, and left-wing activists for a “coordinated drip campaign” to leak his troubles to the media. Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. As of April 25, 46 of the 50 states had settled on the boundaries for 395 of 435 U.S. House districts. We’ve got a lot of needs here, and we have a lot of people that want to talk to you as a congressman. “There’s been a coordinated strike carried out by really, kind of the old establishment wing of our party, and it’s something that I think is a loser’s mentality,” Cawthorn said at his campaign headquarters moments before he conceded. Numerous Republicans jumped into what appeared to be an open-seat race for the 11th District, including Cawthorn’s district chair and handpicked successor. “And they didn’t give him the scoop on Madison Cawthorn.” The incidents, many of them repeated, left Republicans wondering when he would learn to take responsibility for his actions. “Congratulations to @ChuckEdwards4NC on securing the nomination tonight,” Cawthorn wrote on Twitter shortly before midnight. Cawthorn “hasn’t learned from a mistake he’s made over the last year. The Republican was characteristically defiant, telling supporters he would be victorious amid a “very close” race.

Cawthorn's loss did not come as a surprise to North Carolina's political experts and GOP operatives after a series of scandals.

“Cawthorn’s first public comments on the matter were around 24 hours after the Pigeon River reached initial flood levels,” Western North Carolina native Callie Pruett wrote in an op-ed in the North Carolina Mountaineer that ran with a headline calling Cawthorn’s silence an “unforgivable dereliction of duty.” Then, in February, Cawthorn reneged on his choice and opted to run again in his current district after all, and had to face Edwards. His constituents found him hard to reach; some of his district offices were often closed, requiring voters in his sprawling, mountainous district to travel far to get help. After his 2020 election, Cawthorn boasted that he had big legislative plans to work across the aisle, bring down healthcare costs, and improve rural broadband. Cawthorn angered his congressional colleagues with his salacious orgy comment, and the lingerie photos were a particularly damaging surprise for voters, experts say, released less than a month before the primary. Cawthorn’s loss did not come as a surprise to the state’s political experts and GOP operatives.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a freshman Republican who's been beset by scandal since taking office last year, has been ousted in a heated primary in North ...

The congressman, who faced sexual misconduct allegations from his time in college, was also the subject of a lewd video that circulated on social media. Opponents accused Cawthorn of being willing to abandon his constituents for political expediency. As of the AP race call, Edwards had received more than 33% of the vote, to Cawthorn's nearly 32% of the vote. Cawthorn has also faced backlash for calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "thug" and for referring to those charged in relation to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as "political hostages." Cawthorn has referred to the emergence of various controversies as a "coordinated assault against me" but has maintained that the attention has actually gained him Twitter followers. Cawthorn also said he takes responsibility for various speeding tickets and for bringing a weapon to the airport, saying, "I forgot to disarm before I went through a TSA checkpoint and that's my bad, and I have to own that one."

As of this morning, AP data reported that Cawthorn conceded defeat and put his support behind the GOP nominee.

As of this morning, AP data reported that Cawthorn conceded defeat and put his support behind the GOP nominee. Cawthorn was just 25 years old when he was elected to Congress in November 2020. As of this morning, AP data reported that Cawthorn conceded defeat and put his support behind the GOP nominee.

The Trump-backed incumbent Madison Cawthorn conceded the race for North Carolina's 11th Congressional District in the primaries on Tuesday, according to The ...

I wanted you to know the truth, straight from me. Most people have,” said Cawthorn in a Twittervideo, addressing the allegations. - NPRalso reports that he has been stopped at TSA two different times for carrying a loaded gun, and has been charged twice for driving with a revoked license. - He also stated that he is one of the first politicians that has grown up with cellphone in hand, meaning that his actions before running for Congress are documented in a way that older politicians don’t experience. However, he has denied these claims, perThe Washington Post. - “Have you ever taken a dumb photo on vacation?

Mr. Cawthorn, a North Carolina congressman besieged by multiple scandals, lost his primary after many old-guard Republicans had turned on him.

He wrote that it was time for Republicans in the district “to rally behind the Republican ticket to defeat the Democrats’ nominee this November.” Mr. Edwards said that when the two spoke that night, Mr. Cawthorn offered his full support. Mr. McCarthy, for his part, told reporters in March that he had spoken to Mr. Cawthorn after the freshman congressman had implied members of his own party invited him to orgies and to use cocaine with them. “I condemn open borders and the fact that we’re losing the sanctity of our nation by not enforcing immigration laws at the border.” This year’s races could tip the balance of power in Congress to Republicans, hobbling President Biden’s agenda for the second half of his term. Outside Mr. Edwards’s campaign headquarters, people strolling a shop-lined street were unsurprised by his win. He appeared to struggle with two key demographics: unaffiliated voters, who make up more than 40 percent of his district, and those in Henderson County, which includes his hometown of Hendersonville and helped carry him to victory in the last Republican primary. That unfounded theory essentially holds that elites are using immigration and falling birthrates to replace white people and destroy white culture. Most damaging were reports that he frequently missed votes and had abandoned constituency offices. In his campaign office Wednesday, days after a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, Mr. Edwards said he did not believe limiting gun ownership for law-abiding citizens would solve societal problems. Other top North Carolina Republicans, including the state’s House speaker and State Senate leaders, also came to Mr. Edwards’s side. I’ve established that I can balance budgets.

“You know guys, politics is a rough and tumble business and D.C. can be a cruel town,” Seth Meyers said the night after Tuesday's primary elections.

“Oh, Madison, you may be gone, but soon you’ll be forgotten,” he said. “Oh wait, I think I read that whole thing wrong,” the Late Night host said, gleefully. “Just when you feel like you’re making headway in Congress, you’re unceremoniously forced out by a cruel and unforgiving system of cutthroats and backstabbers.

Chuck Edwards, a Trump-supporting state senator, will face the Democratic challenger in November.

Proposals ranged from "relegating him to less favorable committees" to voting Cawthorn out of the House Republican Conference. Now, those lawmakers can breathe a sigh of relief. The day before the primary, Trump posted on Truth Social urging voters to give Cawthorn "a second chance." As it became clear Tuesday night that he wouldn't be able to close the gap, Cawthorn called Edwards to concede. The young firebrand "did a great job" early in his term but then "made some foolish mistakes, which I don't believe he'll make again," Trump wrote. Cawthorn presented Trump with a map labeled "Congressman Cawthorn's plan for North Carolina." At the age of 26 with less than one term under his belt, Cawthorn was already attempting to position himself as a kingmaker in state politics. So did U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). Tillis told CNN that he was "opposing a sitting Republican" for "the first time in my career" due to Cawthorn's "lack of seriousness." Those are the values that made him successful as a father, husband, business owner, and community leader," Edwards' campaign website reads. In August 2016, he was appointed to the North Carolina Senate after state Sen. Tom Apodaca resigned. Nineteen of North Carolina's 28 Republican state senators — including the majority whip and president pro tempore — endorsed Edwards. So did the Republican state House speaker. Ahead of Tuesday's primary, CNN reported that Republicans lawmakers were already planning to sideline Cawthorn if he won reelection. I'm a businessman turned public servant," he said at a primary debate that Cawthorn skipped. "I'm not a politician.

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I mean, for once it’s nice to have a doctor waiting for us.” — JIMMY FALLON “Oh, Madison, you may be gone, but soon you’ll be forgotten. At least now he’ll have more time for his other job, starring as the, I don’t know, bad-boy villain in a CW drama? Oh, wait, I think I read that whole thing wrong. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. “Hopefully, he’ll learn his lesson: Next time you get invited to a cocaine orgy, just go,” Seth Meyers joked.

The "Late Night" host said it was a "rare treat" to watch Republicans take down one of their own.

“At least now he’ll have more time for his other job starring as, the, I don’t know, bad boy villain in a CW drama?” Once a rising star in the party, Cawthorn lost Republican support in recent months, in part for claiming that unnamed GOP colleagues participated in orgies and drug use. The “Late Night” host celebrated Wednesday after the North Carolina Republican lost his re-election bid, following a string of scandals and a strong push from members of his own party.

Cawthorn, by contrast, built his one congressional term around taking on top Republicans — he won the seat in 2020 by winning a runoff against the candidate ...

How Edwards won the primary: Edwards says he is a Trump supporter as well — a necessity in a district that voted for Trump over Joe Biden by 10 points in 2020. Cawthorn was implicating them in baseless conspiracies, and some of them were starting to receive constituent calls asking if they were partaking in these alleged drug-or-sex parties. In March, Cawthorn started saying things that really angered top Republicans in Washington, like accusing them of hosting orgies and using cocaine and calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug.” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) had already been in a feud with Cawthorn for months. He’s generally well-liked by local Republicans: They picked him to fill a vacant Senate seat in 2016 and he’s still in that office. The Republican who kicked fiery Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) out of office in a primary on Tuesday night couldn’t be more different from the scandal-plagued, one-term congressman.

The American Muckrakers PAC says it has "interesting information" on Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, after targeting Rep. Madison Cawthorn.

Currently, a page with the address FireBoebert.com has a "Coming Soon!" message. Wheeler told the outlet that he has "interesting information" about Boebert. Noting that what he supposedly has on her is "certainly not as salacious as some of the Cawthorn stuff," Wheeler said the information has to do with finances. "I think we're gonna go after Lauren Boebert in Colorado in a similar way," the group's co-founder, David B. Wheeler, told Insider. "I think we're gonna engage in that race pretty quickly."