Madison Cawthorn could sure use salvation in the form of Donald Trump right about now, saving him, as he saved J.D. Vance, from a crowded primary field ready to eat him alive. So far we hear crickets from Mar-a-Lago. Maybe Trump is disinclined to get involved with anything as crazy as a gay congressman pretending to be straight and an evangelical Christian.
In all events, Cawthorn needs to pull 30% of the vote at the primary in order to avoid a runoff later in the summer between the two top candidates. This might be difficult to do if the badmouthing he’s receiving is any indication. Insider:
Joy, an Asheville resident of 17 years who also declined to give her last name, told Insider that she thinks he is “crazy.”
“I don’t agree with any of the ideas he has,” she said. “I think he is a wacko and they should take him off of anything that he is on.” […]
Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina called for a investigation into Cawthorn after government watchdog groups accused Cawthorn of violating the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act because of actions related to his financial stake in a cryptocurrency called “Let’s Go Brandon,” the anti-Joe Biden slogan popularized by former President Donald Trump and other top Republicans.
Separately, The Daily Beast on Thursday reported that Cawthorn may have also violated congressional ethics rules involving payments to his chief of staff.
“He screwed himself,” Sharon, a Hendersonville resident of nearly five years who declined to provide her last name, told Insider.
“Once he got elected, he started to do stupid things,” Sharon said. “I won’t vote for him.”
On top of that, Cawthorn faces a congressional ethics complaint, filed last week David Wheeler, the president of American Muckrakers PAC, a political action committee that is trying to unseat him.
It would appear that his roof’s got a hole in it and he might drown, in fact it would be more accurate to say that his roof blew off altogether, right when the tsunami hit — and the bomb in the basement went off.
Maybe Cawthorn will emerge unscathed. We live in a time in history where the laws of political physics do not seem to apply. My gut instinct is that the religious wingnuts are not going to take kindly to the gay behavior. They hate and fear the gays and I think that that will prove to be Cawthorn’s undoing.
Additionally, he shot himself in the foot many months ago when he announced that he was going to run for reelection from a brand new congressional district. That district vanished overnight with the stroke of a pen and that sent Cawthorn back to his original district, hat in hand. He had already picked a successor to run, Michele Woodhouse, and she refused to step out of the race. She’s running against him in the primary along with Chuck Edwards, who is endorsed by Thom Tillis, and who is currently leading in the polls.
Get the countdown clocks running and make the popcorn. May 17 will be here any moment now.
