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The youngest member of Congress, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., on the future of the Republican Party.
Democratic leaders from North Carolina’s western-most district are calling for the expulsion of freshman Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn, alleging his seditious behavior helped incite the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week.
State Democrats from Cawthorn’s 11th District have written a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asking for an investigation into the Republican congressman. They claim there was an ethics violation for violent language on his Twitter feed leading up to the unrest last week at the Capitol.
Calls for Western North Carolina s newly elected member of Congress Madison Cawthorn to leave office are growing as critics say his rhetoric helped spur the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
They include a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by WNC Democratic officials, an opinion piece by Democratic Buncombe County Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara and a Change.org petition that a spokeswoman said was the company s fastest-growing petition over the weekend. Over 14,000 have signed the petition, which argues that (we) have to hold him accountable, this is not what we stand for as citizens of the United States and District 11 of North Carolina deserves much better representation, said spokeswoman Amanda Mustafic Jan. 11.
Last week, as elected members of the House of Representatives and the Senate gathered in their respective chambers to certify electoral votes, Western North Carolina’s newly-elected Republican congressman began to notice that something wasn’t quite right.
Indistinct radio chatter. Restlessness from elected officials. Tension among law enforcement officers. Doors locking. Representatives donning gas masks. Staffers crouching on the floor behind bulletproof seats.
“Wow, this is real,” Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-Hendersonville, said to himself.
The insurrection that ensued was indeed real, born of an alternate reality where feelings matter more than facts.
President Donald Trump has felt all along that the Nov. 3 election was “stolen” from him; in the weeks after his loss, he encouraged supporters to travel to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 to “stop the steal,” despite a stunning string of courtroom losses more than 60 and officials from his own party and admin