A group of North Carolina voters want Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate, saying his actions around the Jan. 6 riot amount to insurrection. Cawthorn’s office condemned the challenge to the first-term Republican's candidacy.
Fein said the Cawthorn challenge will be the first of many they intend to file against other members of Congress associated with the insurrection in the near future. Free Speech for People and the group Our Revolution announced last week that it would urge state election administrators to bar Trump and members of Congress from appearing on future ballots
State law says Cawthorn has the burden to “show by a preponderance of the evidence” that he’s qualified to run.In response to word of the challenge, Cawthorn spokesperson Luke Ball pointed out that “over 245,000 patriots from western North Carolina elected Congressman Cawthorn to serve them in Washington” — a reference to his November 2020 victory in the current 11th District.
Cawthorn, 26, became the youngest member of Congress after his November 2020 election in the far-western 11th District and has become a social media favorite of Trump supporters.He formally filed candidacy papers with the State Board of Elections last month, just before filing was suspended while redistricting lawsuits are pending.
The 11 voters, identified in additional paperwork filed with the board, are from four counties within the new 13th District, which stretches from the state’s foothills east to parts of Charlotte.
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