Madison Cawthorn

Rep. Madison Cawthorn conceded his race in the GOP primary for North Carolina's 11th District to opponent Chuck Edwards in a phone call, ...

In March, he faced charges of driving with a revoked license for the second time in five years. A House Republican familiar with the matter confirmed the discussions. Just as I expected, he presented himself in a very classy and humble way and offered his support to our campaign in absolutely anyway that we can use him," the state senator said.

First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn loses Republican primary race to state Sen. Chuck Edwards.

Edwards and others accuse Cawthorn of trying to walk away from his constituents for political convenience. “I’ve found that most people in politics, if it’s not politically expedient to them, they’ll turn their back on you in a heartbeat,” he said. And videos released in the campaign’s final weeks showed Cawthorn in sexually suggestive poses, which he said were from several years ago – meant to be funny and nothing else. “Against all odds, we fought hard to win this election and provide clear conservative leadership for the mountains,” Edwards said in a news release. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy reprimanded him publicly for the remarks. Cawthorn acknowledged speeding and gun citations as failings, but said the videos were part of a “drip campaign” by his political enemies, of which he has included some Republicans, to flood the district with negative stories.

The 26-year-old congressman who failed to beat back a challenge from Chuck Edwards had lost Republican support.

Edwards and others accuse Cawthorn of trying to walk away from his constituents for political convenience. And videos released in the campaign’s final weeks showed Cawthorn in sexually suggestive poses. Cawthorn soon became a leading spokesperson for Trump’s “America First” policies and conservatives in the culture wars.

Cawthorn faced negative publicity for speeding and gun violations, as well as for calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug.

Edwards and others accuse Cawthorn of trying to walk away from his constituents for political convenience. And videos released in the campaign’s final weeks showed Cawthorn in sexually suggestive poses, which he said were from several years ago — meant to be funny and nothing else. “I’ve found that most people in politics, if it’s not politically expedient to them, they’ll turn their back on you in a heartbeat,” he said. Cawthorn had vaulted to national prominence after winning the mountain-area seat in 2020 at age 25. U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, who endorsed Edwards, said Cawthorn was an embarrassment to his constituents. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy reprimanded him publicly for the remarks.

The North Carolina Republican narrowly lost to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, who had received the backing of some Republicans who had tired of Cawthorn's ...

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All of this led a number of influential Republicans in both North Carolina and DC to back Edwards in what seemed to be a well planned campaign to unseat ...

Over the last few months, he has provoked the wrath of the Republican party elite with a series of bizarre statements, including his dubious claim that other lawmakers he admired had invited him to orgies and done cocaine in front of him. He has also found himself embroiled in scandal after scandal: participating in a cryptocurrency scheme, lying or exaggerating about his past, driving with a revoked license, and attempting to bring a loaded gun through airport security—twice. By the time of his “orgy and cocaine” comment, Cawthorn’s combative and erratic behavior had already alienated him from many North Carolina Republicans. He annoyed them further by unexpectedly announcing that he was going to switch districts, only to then return to his original district after a court ruling gave the new district a Democratic skew.

The first-term congressman fell short despite a late appeal from Trump, who encouraged voters to look past the young lawmaker's string of missteps.

The district has a clear Republican lean: Trump won it by 10 percentage points, according to the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “He’s a hot mess,” Republican voter Susan Newman, 53, said at the time. That left Edwards set to advance to November’s general election and Cawthorn, 26, to see his House career come to an end after one term in January.

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Republicans on Tuesday voted to end controversial freshman congressman Madison Cawthorn's time in office on Tuesday, ...

“When Madison was first elected to Congress, he did a great job. I have no patience for anybody who’s got a focus on the latter,” Tillis said. Article content His spokesman Luke Ball said Cawthorn had called Edwards to concede defeat. Article content Article content

Rep. Madison Cawthorn's campaign spent nothing on local TV advertisements and lagged behind in cable investments going into the Tuesday primary for his ...

Edwards' campaign has spent over $417,000 on campaign ads this cycle, including just over $316,000 on local TV ads, Medium Buying's data shows. Cawthorn's campaign has spent just over $147,000 on cable spots in the buildup to the Tuesday primary, according to data from Medium Buying. His campaign has placed about $13,000 into radio spots. Though Cawthorn remains ahead of the other contenders for his seat in a recent poll, that same survey shows a decline of about ten percentage points among likely primary voters. The nonprofit does not publicly disclose their donors. North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who has become a vocal critic of Cawthorn's, has endorsed GOP state Sen. Chuck Edwards in the race for Cawthorn's House seat. - Cawthorn has been snared in a slew of controversies in the buildup to the primary, including accusations of possible insider trading and calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a "thug" as his country faces an invasion by Russia.

Chuck Edwards, a three-term state senator who represents the Republican old guard, defeated Mr. Cawthorn, once seen as a rising star in his party.

But Mr. Cawthorn, who has been in a wheelchair since a car crash that almost took his life at 18, struggled to overcome a series of old and new personal and political errors. Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House minority leader, told reporters he had spoken with Mr. Cawthorn and told him that he had lost trust in him. Like Mr. Cawthorn, he was born and raised in rural Hendersonville, a city of 14,000 south of Asheville. Photos and videos of him partying and emulating sexual antics circulated. But late Tuesday, Mr. Edwards and Mr. Cawthorn were both clearing the 30 percent threshold. Mr. Edwards’s narrow triumph was called by The Associated Press.

The youngest Republican congressman in history lost on Tuesday following an eye-popping series of bizarre scandals.

And then he angered his home state’s Republicans by announcing a bid in a newly drawn district meant for the state house speaker, only to see the gerrymander thrown out in court and forcing him to return, chastened, to run in the district that he currently represents. After reading a long Politico profile of Cawthorn describing him as unraveling, one freshman Democrat told Intelligencer that they came away with a feeling of pity towards a colleague. In 2020, Madison Cawthorn became the youngest Republican elected to Congress in American history. A spokesperson for Cawthorn said he conceded the Republican race for his North Carolina congressional seat on Tuesday night. That’s why I voted for a lot of the criminal justice reform bills.” It also didn’t help that Cawthorn had an inflated view of his own political stock.

First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his Republican primary race Tuesday to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, after the pro-Donald Trump firebrand's personal ...

And videos released in the campaign’s final weeks showed Cawthorn in sexually suggestive poses, which he said were from several years ago — meant to be funny and nothing else. Edwards and others accuse Cawthorn of trying to walk away from his constituents for political convenience. “I’ve found that most people in politics, if it’s not politically expedient to them, they’ll turn their back on you in a heartbeat,” he said. Cawhorn, who had vaulted to national prominence after winning the mountain-area seat in 2020 at age 25, said he would support Edwards in the general election. "Against all odds, we fought hard to win this election and provide clear conservative leadership for the mountains,” Edwards said in a news release. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy reprimanded him publicly for the remarks. Cawthorn acknowledged speeding and gun citations as failings, but said the videos were part of a “drip campaign” by his political enemies, of which he has included some Republicans, to flood the district with negative stories. Cawthorn faced negative publicity for speeding and gun violations, as well as for calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug.” He also infuriated fellow Republicans in Congress when he alleged on a podcast that he had been invited to an orgy in Washington. Besides the remark about being invited to an orgy, Cawthorn said he had seen leaders in the movement to end drug addiction use cocaine. Cawthorn soon became a leading spokesperson for Trump’s “America First” policies and conservatives in the culture wars. “Republicans chose Chuck Edwards tonight because he is the embodiment of mountain values who will fight for them every single day in Congress with honour and integrity,” Tillis said in a news release. Cawthorn called Edwards to concede the 11th Congressional District primary to Edwards, Cawthorn campaign spokesperson Luke Ball told The Associated Press. The AP later called the race for Edwards over Cawthorn and six other Republican candidates.

First-term U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his Republican primary race Tuesday to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, after the pro-Donald Trump firebrand's personal ...

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Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the scandal-prone freshman lawmaker backed by former President Donald Trump, conceded defeat in his Republican primary election, ...

Tillis came out swinging against Cawthorn. He endorsed Edwards, a top rival in the GOP primary. His seat, which was previously held by ex-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, is a safe Republican district. North Carolina voters on Tuesday had already decided who will compete in one of this year's critical U.S. Senate races: Rep. Ted Budd will win the Republican Senate primary in the race to fill the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Richard Burr, NBC projected. - North Carolina Rep. Ted Budd will win the Republican Senate primary in the race to fill the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Richard Burr, NBC projected. - NBC News has yet to project a winner in Cawthorn's congressional district. - Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the scandal-prone freshman lawmaker backed by former President Donald Trump, conceded defeat in his Republican primary election, Cawthorn's spokesman said.

Ordinarily, when Donald Trump issues an endorsement of an incumbent Republican, the former president characterizes the GOP policymaker as a celebrated hero and ...

As regular readers know, the congressman appeared on a podcast in March and was asked whether the TV show “House of Cards” is realistic. Yes, Republican officials will probably be eager to help him pack up his office and pay for his airfare out of Washington, D.C., but they don’t always get to decide who maintains influence in GOP politics. His character flaws were fully displayed when he first ran for Congress in 2020: nods to white supremacists, extravagant lies, accusations of sexually predatory behavior, overt racism and a long list of driving offenses.” As the dust settles, there are three key elements to this that are worth keeping in mind. Far-right Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina lost in the primary election on Tuesday, ending his re-election bid after an ugly (yet entertaining) race characterized by Republican infighting. The former president didn’t bother to pretend that the North Carolina Republican has been an amazingly successful congressman — because even Trump realized that no one would take such a claim seriously.

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.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost the Republican primary for his House seat in North Carolina on Tuesday — halting the young, pro-Trump congressman's rise after a ...

He became one of the youngest members in the House’s history, turning his adversity — a car accident that left him partially paralyzed as a teenager — into political success. He’s been accused of sexual harassment on multiple occasions and criticized for his role on Jan. 6. But it was Tillis who got the last word after Cawthorn’s concession. He floated swapping districts last fall to secure an easier reelection — but returned to the 11th District once redistricting lines shifted again. His downfall comes even after former President Donald Trump offered support for the embattled Republican. From personal to political controversy, Cawthorn’s time in the public eye has seen it all.