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RALEIGH, N. C. (AP) — First-term U. S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost her number one Republican race to Sen. Chuck Edwards on Tuesday after pro-Trump agitator’s political and non-public blunders translated into voter discontent.
Cawthorn called Edwards to award the number one in Congressional District 11 to Edwards, Cawthorn Crusade spokesman Luke Ball told The Associated Press. The AP later rated the race for Edwards de Cawthorn and six other Republican candidates.
“Against all odds, we fought to win this election and provide transparent conservative leadership for the mountains,” Edwards said in a news release in November.
Cawhorn, who gained national notoriety after winning the mountain region seat in 2020 at the age of 25, said he would back Edwards in the general election. in November,” he tweeted Tuesday night.
Edwards owns a fast-food franchise that qualifies for the November election against Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, who won Tuesday’s six-candidate Democratic primary.
U. S. Senator Thom Tillis, who supported Edwards, said Cawthorn was a source of embarrassment to his constituents.
“Republicans chose Chuck Edwards tonight because he is the embodiment of the mountain values that will fight for them every day in Congress with honor and integrity,” Tillis said in a news release.
Cawthorn has been the subject of negative exposure and gun violations, as well as calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “bully. “He also angered his Republican colleagues in Congress when he alleged on a podcast that he had been invited to an event in Washington.
And his initial resolution to run for re-election, only to return to District 11, didn’t please many residents.
Days after taking office in early 2021, Cawthorn spoke at the “Stop the Steal” rally to question Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election that preceded the Jan. 6 Capitol Uprising.
Cawthorn temporarily became a major spokesman for Trump and the “America First” policy of conservatives in the culture wars. Trump approved it.
In addition to being invited to an event, Cawthorn said he had noticed that the leaders of the motion to end drug addiction were using cocaine. Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy publicly rebuked him for the s.
Cawthorn has been arrested by police 3 times since October and pierced with guns at airport checkpoints twice since last year, which was added last month. years ago, supposedly funny and nothing more.
Cawthorn declared the gun and firearms subpoenas flawed, but said the videos were part of a “trickle-down campaign” through his political enemies, and added some Republicans, to flood the district with negative stories.
Many conservatives regarded Cawthorn as a rising star when in 2020 he won a runoff for the post made vacant through Mark Meadows, Trump’s personnel leader.
Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair after being partially paralyzed following a twist of automobile fate as a teenager, turned 25, the constitutional minimum age to sit in the House, in the 2020 campaign.
In an election eve article on his social media site Truth Social, Trump called on the number one electorate to help him again: “Recently, he made some stupid mistakes, which I won’t make again. . . let’s give Madison a moment. “
Speaking to reporters Tuesday night at his campaign headquarters in Hendersonville with a still-dubious outcome, Cawthorn said Trump had been strong.
“I’ve found that at most other people in politics, if it’s not politically convenient for them, will turn their backs on you in the blink of an eye,” he said. “But no matter what you face, when Donald Trump supports you, he supports you to the end. “
Perhaps Cawthorn’s biggest political mistake occurred last fall, when he ran for another seat in the U. S. House of Representatives. In the U. S. , which could have led to a less difficult re-election, only to return to District 11 when the redeployment dispute replaced the lines. Again. Edwards and others accused Cawthorn of seeking to distance himself from his constituents for political reasons.
Edwards, 61, operates McDonald’s franchises in western North Carolina. He joined the state Senate in 2016 and has risen through the ranks of seniority in the chamber, taking on presidencies and more extensive measures in recent years related to small businesses, firearms and immigration.
He defended the legislation, which was opposed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, that would have required all county sheriffs to lend a hand to the federal immigration and customs enforcement government by illegally detaining detainees they say are in the country.
Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press
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