GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn has been ousted in North Carolina. The far-right lawmaker yesterday lost his seat in the GOP Primary to State Senator Chuck Edwards.
The Associated Press called the race for Sen. Chuck Edwards, at 11.09 pm ET. Cawthorn, 26, was quick to accept defeat and urge voters to support Edwards in the November midterms.
In a rare show of maturity, Cawthorn tweeted, “Congratulations to @ChuckEdwards4NC on securing the nomination tonight. It’s time for the NC-11 GOP to rally behind the Republican ticket to defeat the Democrats’ nominee this November.”
Congratulations to @ChuckEdwards4NC on securing the nomination tonight.
It’s time for the NC-11 GOP to rally behind the Republican ticket to defeat the Democrats’ nominee this November.
— Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) May 18, 2022
Edwards said in a statement, “Against all odds, we fought hard to win this election and provide clear conservative leadership for the mountains. Now, we will harness this energy, come together as a party, and keep this seat in Republican hands in November.”
Related: Madison Cawthorn claims the “establishment” are trying to kill his political career
Cawthorn’s defeat came just a day after securing a late message of support from former President Donald Trump.
Trump had posted a message on Truth Social saying, “At 18 years of age, Madison Cawthorn, the now 26-year-old Congressman from the Great State of North Carolina, went through a life-changing event the likes of which, fortunately, few people will ever have to endure.
“In just seconds, he lost the use of the lower half of his body, a traumatic experience to say the least. When Madison was first elected to Congress, he did a great job.
“Recently, he made some foolish mistakes, which I don’t believe he’ll make again … let’s give Madison a second chance!”
Clearly, the voters of District 11 in North Carolina did not believe a second chance was warranted.
Trump didn’t elaborate on Cawthorn’s “foolish mistakes”, but you can take your pick from recent months. There were the times he was stopped getting on to an airplane carrying a gun, or the two occasions he was stopped whilst driving with a revoked license.
Then there was the podcast interview where he claimed fellow Republican lawmakers had invited him to cocaine-fuelled orgies. Or the video of him, naked, appearing to thrust his crotch into his male cousin’s face.
Related: Madison Cawthorn explains leaked video of himself naked in bed, humping male friend
Online, sympathy for Cawthorn was in short supply.
Actor and LGBTQ campaigner George Takei summed up the feelings of many.
Lol bye pic.twitter.com/RjjC8JepBs
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) May 18, 2022
Donald Trump endorsed @CawthornforNC. @CawthornforNC lost. Ouch
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) May 18, 2022
Wait, so a Trump endorsement is as valuable as a degree from Trump University?
— My Name Is Baughbb (@IPossible77) May 18, 2022
Others wondered what Cawthorn might do next.
Now would be a good time for Madison Cawthorn to drop names on the cocaine orgies.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 18, 2022
Now Madison Cawthorn faces an interesting red-pill-blue-pill moment.
He can take the job Fox News is going to offer him, and stay in the far-right matrix. Or he can turn on all the GOP leaders who screwed him — naming names and cooperating with investigators.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) May 18, 2022
Madison Cawthorn is retiring to spend more time with his cousin.
— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) May 18, 2022
Many were quick to remind Cawthorn of a childish taunt he threw in Liz Cheney’s direction last year.
From one year ago…when that worm turns, it’s a bitch! https://t.co/Sh6MUdGyLb
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) May 18, 2022
Others said that if an American First lawmaker like Cawthorn could be ousted, so could others.
If Madison Cawthorn can be unseated, so can Marjorie Taylor Greene.
— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) May 18, 2022
Madison Cawthorn lost his seat tonight.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is next.
— Marcus Flowers (@Marcus4Georgia) May 18, 2022
Elsewhere on Tuesday, two other Trump endorsements enjoyed success in their primaries. Another far-right candidate, Sen. Doug Mastriano, became the GOP’s gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania. In North Carolina, GOP Senate primary, Rep. Ted Budd, beat former Gov. Pat McCrory.
At the time of writing, counting was still being carried out to see who had won the Pennsylvania Senate primary, where Trump has thrown his support behind Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Among LGBTQ candidates, Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta lost his Democratic primary to become Pennsylvania’s first gay, Black Senator. John Fetterman, currently Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, won that race.
Related: Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta announces bid to be first out, Black U.S. Senator
Rep. Brian Sims was hoping to replace Fetterman as LG, but he lost the Democratic primary to Austin Davis.
BaltoSteve
So Faux News pundit or porn, wonder what’s next for Maddie boy.
Polaro
Too dumb to be a pundit. Saw the humping video – oddly being paralyzed makes sex awkward. So, Fox New pundit – they don’t have to be smart.
GlobeTrotter
@Polaro: Say what you will about Maddie, but that humping video really opened my eyes – I had no idea the disabled were THAT good in bed! it made me really reconsider my previous stance on dating guys in wheelchairs.
thisisnotreal
@globetrotter as a gay man in a wheelchair I respect your right to date or sleep with whoever you want to, but don’t act like you’ve suddenly seen the light when it comes to giving people like us a second glance or a first chance and expecting our undying appreciation for it. If someone doesnt want me the first time around because of my disability, then I don’t want to be their pick the second time around when they’ve suddenly changed their opinion. You have every right to date not not date whoever you want, just like I have the right not to accept being someone’s consolation prize when all their other options have dried up. Prejudiced party of one? A seat just opened up for you sir, please pick up your handbag on the way out the door.
WillParkinson
@thisisnotreal Brilliantly said. Thank you.
GlobeTrotter
@thisisnotreal: Whoa! Where do you get off judging me while sitting on your high horse? You know nothing about me or my motivations!
My reason for not having dated the disabled has absolutely nothing to do with hate or because I consider disabled individuals to be lesser people. I’ve refrained from having sex with disabled individuals out of my OWN insecurities and fear of unintentionally causing physical harm. I’m aware of my own physical strengths, but I’m simply not aware of or familiar with the physical strength and abilities of someone who’s lost the mobility of the whole or part of their bodies. So out of an abundance of caution, I decided to abstain from physical relations with disabled individuals.
Consider that next time before baselessly accusations others of hate and prejudice!
thisisnotreal
@globetrotter your still projecting onto people who don’t deserve it my friend. Your admitting that people like ME make YOU feel uncomfortable. And while the pragmatist in me understands that logic, I’m sorry but I’ve dealt with that kind of thinking for too many decades. Me and other disabled people are not at fault because you have insecurities and fears and discomfort when it comes to us. Your assuming that we have sensitivities and are fragile mentally or physically and quite often with disabled people that is just not the case. Do you know how much physical and mental strength it takes to live like this every single day? And yet your worried that you might break us or upset us? Give us more credit my friend, we’ve been living this life a long time, it’s not our first rodeo. By assuming that you will hurt us or offend us or anything like that, your saying (whether you see it or not) that you don’t TRUST us to tell you what our limits are, or when something is too much, or not enough, or what we need, or what we don’t need etc. it’s not our fault that you don’t trust us enough to communicate our needs and desires to you. And your trying to make it sound like your doing us a favor by not wanting to date us or sleep with us because you want to protect us? I’m sorry my friend but that doesn’t make you some kind of hero it makes you one more person in the world who is projecting their discomfort towards
disabled people AT disabled people. We know what we need and what we don’t need and what we can handle and what we can’t handle, the problem isn’t that we don’t have those answers, the problem is that you don’t trust us enough to GIVE you those answers. And I’m sorry my friend but that is truly a you issue not an us issue. But if you truly respect my community then please don’t give me that BS about how your some white knight who’s just trying to protect people like me, because your not doing it for us your doing it for you. Your doing something we didn’t ask for so no it’s not a favor it’s a slap in the face.
Mack
Probably Only Fans porn with his cousin. He’s got some purtty lips.
GlobeTrotter
@thisisnotreal: “Your admitting that people like ME make YOU feel uncomfortable.”
I admitted no such thing, and I’ll thank you to please not project your own thoughts into my mouth!
Eternal.Cowboy
Every time GlobeTrotter posts something I think, “He cannot sink any lower than this.” and here we are. He is just a reprehensible person.
@thisisnotreal –
I’m really sorry you had to deal with that interaction. Nobody should have to deal with that kind of jackassery.
ComfortablyNumb
@thisisnotreal lighten up, Francis FFS
Mister P
Hopefully that is the last we hear of him and the seat turns BLUE!
Polaro
It would be great to flip the seat. Will take a miracle.
mujerado
It’s a red district. They’re going to elect someone probably just as loyal to Trump, or at least to the current Trumpist GOP, as Cawthorn. He just won’t be as green or as blatantly stupid as Mad Cawthorn.
Cam
Another Failure by Trump.
If you notice now, Trump will often wait until somebody is ahead and then endorse them because his people aren’t doing well.
Kangol2
True, though a number of far-right wackos (Mastriano, Budd, etc.) did win last night. Dr. Quack is hanging onto a razor-thin lead in Pennsylvania.
shva08
The good news: The voters kicked Mad out of the Republican clown car.
The bad news: There’s a long line of replacements.
GlobeTrotter
…a long line of EVEN WACKIER replacements!
barkomatic
It’s a positive that this child won’t be re-elected. While the seat will likely be one by Edwards, Cawthorn got a disproportionate amount of coverage.
Derek Northcutt
Now can we just stop talking about him? and maybe someday stop talking about Trump?
Kangol2
We can stop talking about Mad Nazi Lover Cawthorn as of today. Unfortunately Don the Con is still running the GQP. He needs to be convicted of his multiple crimes and sent straight to prison!
mujerado
@Kangol – A growing number of Republicans are wanting Trump to retire. Unfortunately, his beliefs and attitudes have been adopted. They just don’t want his excess baggage to get in the way. Unless and until he’s brought to heel one way or another, he’ll be sitting on the sidelines bloviating for the duration of his ability to do so.
Fahd
He still has 7 or so months in office; plenty of time to get up to some more mischief.
His “mature” reaction may have to do with the additional dirt that his enemies could share; Otherwise, I would have expected him to declare the election “stolen”.
Maybe he’ll still run as an independent (I know he said he would not back down, lol).
Looking forward to the autobiography; not!
Essie
(1) If he were to run as an Independent then it would be great for the Dems because he would split the votes; (2) I can’t imagine anyone wanting to read his autobiography. It would be full of the lies he told in the beginning of his campaign.
johncp56
He should be now, he really has to go back to crossdressing and sucking C!@#$%^&Ks start with mine
Kangol2
He should name the names of the RepubliQan coke snorters and orgy lovers before he wheels off into his post-Congressional sunset!
Mr. Stadnick
The orgy is over
J W G
The media would like to portray all gays in America as these woke liberals. Not true. There are many homosexuals in this country who do not agree with the present nonsense going on in our culture and not buying into the Democrat agenda (I hate that word) which doesn’t seem to be making anyone’s life any better. As long as Madison Cawthorn is the ‘Opposition’ he seems to be ridiculed for orgies and fast living. Now children….as a gay man who grew up to adulthood in California….and on this site….I’d say that’s the pot calling the kettle black.
Kangol2
What are you babbling about? It was the REPUBLIQAN PARTY, not Democrats, that exposed Mad Nazi Loving Cawthorn! The GQP! His own party!
Second, I’m not sure what “present nonsense in our culture” you mean, but if you are trying to suggest that greater equality, liberty and self-determination for LGBTQ people are a problem then that’s on you, not “the culture.” Or do you mean the right-wing extremism, Christianism, etc.? You seem confused.
As far as “Democrat [sic] agenda,” what is that, since the Democratic Party can hardly agree on an agenda to pursue? Do you mean a moderate and incremental approach to everything, which is what they have done so far now that Biden is in office, or do you mean some fantastical garbage you mainlined from FoxNews and Breitbart? You do realize that Biden has maintained Don the Con’s policies in a number of areas, unfortunately, so please define this “Democrat [sic] agenda” you’re talking about.
Last, as for making people’s lives better, the US unemployment rate is now down to 3.6%, there is increasing unionization, there are millions of unfilled jobs, inflation (which is global) may be peaking in the US, the housing market is starting to abate, and once corporations can get the supply chain crises under control, more goods will be available and prices will go down. AS far Covid-19 goes, though, I have less faith in the government (or many across the globe), since following science seems always to take a back seat to corporate concerns, with disastrous results as we witnessed in the US beginning in 2020.
Mack
Spoken like a true Right wing Log Cabin dimwit.
mailliw110
What gay guy uses homosexual in a sentence? You know, it’s ok to say gay.
Thad
Yeah…what’s the “present nonsense”? Gun violence? The threat to abortion rights?
MISTERJETT
at least he’s man enough to concede and admit when he lost. so unlike some BIG BABY who starts crying that the election was stolen. we can at least give him that.
Invader7
One down and many more whack job republinuts to go. Drumpfs “endorsement” is now the Kiss of Death …!!!
moretruth
Bet he’s already lobbying to be on the next Dancing with the Stars and the chief meteorologist on OAN.
SDR94103
you so funny.
Tombear
Oh well!
Bengali
Fun to watch my lgbt brothers and sisters go at each other. It exemplifies why our country is in such a horrible mess. First line of defense seems to be ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK. Judge someone for a statement before attempting to get clarity on the point they were making.
mujerado
@Bengali – We are not brothers and sisters just because we’re in the alphabet community. I wish that sort of talk would just go away. Except for the fact of our gender preferences, lgbtq people have nothing more in common than any other demographic, nor is there any reason we should. We can get together and be a formidable political alliance when we choose to, but that’s pretty much where it ends.
mailliw110
I don’t have any brothers in my family.
FridM
Loser!!!
GrizzleyMichael
This couldn’t happen to another ugly piece of shit and I hope he gets sent to prison for all those things he has done.
IanHunter
Good. Good.
My2CentsWorth
I think that he will be eligible for retirement benefits.
He may run again, or Trump will offer him a position after the 2024 election.
barryaksarben
I know the minute a guy on this site is just a lying goper is when they start spouting off about how horrible the dems are and their agenda. We are not cancelling people. The only person that has actually been cancelled and denied his livelyhood is Colin K. Too bad we didnt get to cancel Matt but it was the gop that did that and they only did it because he exposed their pathetic little orgies( how unsexy did thye sound?) UGH. We want ALL people to vote, we want all people to have their privacy, we want children who are confused about their sexuality to be free of systematic bullying and all women to have CONTROL of their own bodies as all men in this country already have. What is so bizarre and horrible in this and if you find something you are a right wingnut and are just trolling here