Tag Archives: Madison Cawthorn

Politico reports: Photographs obtained by POLITICO appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting. Cawthorn, 26, was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on …

Raleigh’s NBC News affiliate reports: WRAL News on Tuesday night obtained video of a traffic stop involving U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina. Troopers told WRAL News the truck was stopped for driving outside of the designated lane on Highway 74. The video shows a N.C. Highway Patrol trooper stop a pickup truck. You can hear the trooper tell …

Smoky Mountain News reports: Saying in a leaked recording that “we all want the ultimate goal of him never serving again,” Lisa Wiggins, a former caseworker and campaign aide to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-Henderson) has filed an employment-related campaign against the embattled congressman. “What he’s done to me was illegal, morally wrong, you name it, it’s been done,” Wiggins said …

Asheville’s CBS News affiliate reports: Some Democrats are trying an unusual strategy to try to defeat controversial Republican U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn: they’re urging people to vote in the Republican primary. Moe Davis, a Democrat who ran against Cawthorn in 2020 and lost, is urging Democrats to temporarily change their voter registration to unaffiliated. Under state law, that would allow …

Asheville’s ABC News affiliate reports: Seven Republican candidates for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District seat squared off in a debate Monday night at the WNC Ag Center as the May 17 primary inches closer. Noticeably absent from the debate was Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the man currently holding the seat the other candidates are vying for — and the only GOP …

The Charlotte Observer reports: Former Gov. Pat McCrory, who is running for U.S. Senate, launched a new digital ad this week attempting to tie one of his biggest competitors to one of the most controversial men in North Carolina politics: Rep. Madison Cawthorn. The ad focuses on war in Ukraine and a riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, …

The Huffington Post reports: The North Carolina Highway Patrol has released another dashcam video from a traffic stop of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) when he didn’t have his driver’s license and was speeding, according to the officer on the scene. During the stop, Cawthorn said the car was his, then appeared surprised when the officer told him the vehicle was …

Former GOP rep turned Fox host Trey Gowdy unloaded on Madison Cawthorn’s “orgies and cocaine” claims last night. My question for the congressman is simply this: Who? Give us the names. If you’re being invited to cocaine parties by colleagues, tell us who invited you? Who used illicit drugs in front of you? Who broke the very laws they passed, …

NBC News reports: Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., broke his silence Friday after days of GOP uproar over his remarks on a podcast claiming congressional colleagues were using drugs and inviting him to sex parties. But in a lengthy statement, Cawthorn attempted to distance himself from his own comments by suggesting it was Democrats and the media that made the allegations …

The Hill reports: Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) is slated to speak at former President Trump’s upcoming rally in North Carolina, giving the embattled congressman a key audience with Trump’s ultra-conservative base as he faces backlash from GOP lawmakers and much of his state’s congressional delegation. Cawthorn will be joined by Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), whom Trump has endorsed for the …

CNN reports: Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is throwing his weight behind a primary opponent to freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn — an extraordinary broadside against a fellow Republican from his home state, as internal frustration with the controversial MAGA firebrand reaches a boiling point. “It comes down to focus on the district, producing results for the district, and in …

The Week reports: Embattled Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) would like to assure everyone that, despite the backlash toward his wild claims of Washington, D.C. orgies and cocaine use, he has every intention of sticking around. Oh, and he’s a friend of former President Donald Trump’s, lest we forget. “The radical left, the establishment, and the media want to take me …

The Washington Post reports: House Republican leaders met Wednesday with Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R) after the North Carolina lawmaker sparked outrage among some members of his party with his claims about an “orgy” invitation and alleged drug use among unnamed members of Congress. Cawthorn was seen leaving the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) Wednesday morning after a …

It’s not the just his own House Freedom Caucus who are upset with Madison Cawthorn: There’s really only one question these days for North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn: Who? As in, who are the people that allegedly invited the Republican congressman to orgies in Washington? And who are the people who he allegedly witnessed doing cocaine? Cawthorn’s allegations were the …

Politico reports: Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who chairs the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus to which Cawthorn belongs, said he plans to speak to the North Carolina Republican one-on-one about the incendiary comment. Perry further indicated that Cawthorn should identify the individuals he alleges engaged in that behavior. “I think it is important, if you’re going to say something like that, …

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pledged to speak to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) about his allegation that people in Washington, D.C. have invited him to orgies and done cocaine in front of him after Republican members expressed frustration with the comments. “I look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to …

“The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington – being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70. And I look at all these people – a lot of them I’ve looked up to all my life, always paid attention to politics – then all of a sudden you get invited to …

Talking Points Memo reports: Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s (R-NC) photo-op touting the infrastructure funding for his district that came from the bipartisan infrastructure package (BIF) didn’t go quite as planned on Thursday. A video published by American Muckrakers PAC, a Cawthorn opposition group, shows the GOP lawmaker being confronted by a person off-screen who asked him point-blank if he actually voted …

From the editorial board of the Charlotte Observer: A growing number of Republicans seem to be coming around to an idea that’s old news: people like Madison Cawthorn maybe shouldn’t hold public office. Cawthorn, only a first-term congressman, frequently makes national headlines for all the wrong reasons. The despicable rhetoric coming from certain Republican politicians is hardly a new phenomenon. …

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Friday that one of his members, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (N.C.), is “wrong” for saying that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a “thug.” “Madison is wrong. If there’s any thug in this world, it’s Putin,” McCarthy said at a Capitol press conference when asked about Cawthorn’s comments. Yet McCarthy confirmed that …