56 Facts About Madison Cawthorn

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David Madison Cawthorn was born on August 1,1995 and is an American politician who served as the US representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2021 to 2023.

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Madison Cawthorn's tenure was marked by various controversies, including allegations of insider trading, improper payments, bringing a handgun to an airport, and appearing in a leaked nude video.

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Madison Cawthorn lost his reelection bid in the 2022 Republican primary to Chuck Edwards.

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Madison Cawthorn was born on August 1,1995, in Asheville, North Carolina, to Priscilla and Roger Madison Cawthorn.

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Madison Cawthorn was home-schooled in Hendersonville, North Carolina, through 12th grade, and played football with the Asheville Saints, a league that includes home-schooled high school students.

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In 2014, at age 18, Madison Cawthorn was seriously injured while returning from a spring break trip to Florida.

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Madison Cawthorn was riding as a passenger in a BMW X3 SUV near Daytona Beach, Florida, when his friend Bradley Ledford fell asleep at the wheel.

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The vehicle crashed into a concrete barrier while Madison Cawthorn's feet were on the dashboard.

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Madison Cawthorn said he accrued $3 million in medical debt during his recovery; 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.

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Madison Cawthorn had acknowledged in 2017 under oath that he had been turned down before the accident.

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Madison Cawthorn said his grades were low primarily because his injuries had interfered with his ability to learn.

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From January 2015 to August 2016, Madison Cawthorn worked as a staff assistant in US Representative Mark Meadows's district office.

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Madison Cawthorn told the Asheville Citizen-Times he worked there "full-time", but it was a part-time position.

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Madison Cawthorn is the owner and CEO of SPQR Holdings, LLC, a real estate investment firm in Hendersonville.

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The firm was started in August 2019 and reported no income; Madison Cawthorn is its sole employee.

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Madison Cawthorn was supported by many local leaders and endorsed by Mark Walker, the vice chairman of the House Republican Conference.

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Madison Cawthorn benefited from false and misleading claims that Bennett was a "Never-Trumper".

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Madison Cawthorn had referred to Hitler as "the Fuhrer", Hitler's official title, and called Hitler "a supreme evil".

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Madison Cawthorn spoke on the third day of the 2020 Republican National Convention.

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Madison Cawthorn is the youngest Republican and one of the youngest members ever elected to the House of Representatives.

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Madison Cawthorn is the first member of Congress born in the 1990s.

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In November 2021, Madison Cawthorn first declared his intention to run for a second term in the new 13th congressional district, which includes Cleveland County and other counties west of Charlotte.

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Madison Cawthorn was registered to vote in the new 14th district; members of Congress are not required to live in the district they represent but merely in the same state.

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On May 17,2022, Madison Cawthorn conceded to Republican primary challenger Chuck Edwards.

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Under North Carolina law, the burden is on Madison Cawthorn to show through a preponderance of the evidence that he is not an insurrectionist.

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Madison Cawthorn filed suit in US court to dismiss the challenge before the state elections board could hear it.

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The appeals court did not determine whether Madison Cawthorn is eligible for office; it only determined that the 1872 law does not shield him.

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In December 2020, at a Turning Point USA conference in Florida, Madison Cawthorn said that he would try to contest the 2020 presidential election results when Congress counted the Electoral College votes in January, citing fraud, though there was no evidence that fraud affected the election results.

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Madison Cawthorn subsequently used conspiracy theories about fraud to run advertisements and raise money for himself.

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Madison Cawthorn called on the TPUSA event's attendees to "lightly threaten" their representatives.

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Madison Cawthorn took his seat as a member of Congress at the start of the 117th Congress on January 3,2021.

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Madison Cawthorn repeated the false conspiracy theories that there was widespread fraud in the election.

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Madison Cawthorn 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".

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Madison Cawthorn reacted to the not guilty verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse by offering Rittenhouse an internship, saying, "You have a right to defend yourself, so be armed, be dangerous and be moral".

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Alyssa Farah Griffin, for whom Madison Cawthorn once interned, condemned his comments as based on ignorance and spreading Russian propaganda.

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Madison Cawthorn claimed that prominent Washington figures had used cocaine in front of him.

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Madison Cawthorn did not tell the truth [and] that's unacceptable.

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The request said that Madison Cawthorn had provided more than $250 worth of free housing and travel to Smith, in violation of House rules, providing documents that appear to show Smith lives for free in a house owned by Madison Cawthorn.

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On May 17,2022, Madison Cawthorn lost renomination to Chuck Edwards, a state senator.

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On November 16,2022, Joel Burgess of the Asheville Citizen-Times wrote Madison Cawthorn had vacated and shut down his offices two months before the end of his term.

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Madison Cawthorn subsequently purchased a $1.1 million dollar home in Florida.

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Madison Cawthorn identifies as a constitutional conservative and describes his position on abortion rights as pro-life or anti-abortion.

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Madison Cawthorn describes himself as "fiscally conservative", says his stance on immigration is "conservative", and supports legal gun ownership, opposing gun control legislation.

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Madison Cawthorn supports removing Confederate statues because they commemorate secession from the United States, though in June 2021 he voted against a bill that would remove statues of white supremacists and Confederates from the United States Capitol.

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In 2022, Madison Cawthorn voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation to codify same-sex marriage into federal law.

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Madison Cawthorn falsely asserts that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, though he backtracked on the claim during a January 2021 CNN interview with Pamela Brown.

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Madison Cawthorn married Cristina Bayardelle, a college student and competitive CrossFit athlete, in a December 2020 civil ceremony, followed by an April 2021 outdoor ceremony.

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Madison Cawthorn said that he trained in wheelchair racing for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, but never competed at a qualifying level and was not involved in a team.

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Katrina Krulikas described an incident when she was 17 and Madison Cawthorn was 19 in which he pressured her to sit on his lap and attempted to kiss her forcibly twice, which she resisted.

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Madison 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.

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Madison Cawthorn's campaign characterized Krulikas's allegations as politically motivated, which she denied.

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On October 17,2020, a group of Patrick Henry College alumni released a public letter accusing Madison 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.

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Madison 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 Madison Cawthorn's campaign.

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On May 5,2023, Madison Cawthorn pleaded guilty and was fined $250.

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In March 2022, Madison Cawthorn was charged with driving while his license was revoked and while two speeding tickets were pending.

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Madison Cawthorn had court dates in Polk and Cleveland counties in June 2022 for speeding and driving with a revoked license.