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The Republican candidate elected in North Carolina turned 25, the legal age for Congress, in early August. Close to Trump, he calls himself a “constitutional conservative.” But his election campaign was full of controversy
He is 25 years, three months and three days old, and is the youngest member of the United States Congress elected in the last 25 years (THE SPECIAL AMERICA 2020 – THE LIVEBLOG OF VOTING). Madison Cawthorn is the new face of the Republican Party, close to Donald Trump (with whom she proudly poses in a photo posted on her Instagram profile) and even more so to Mark Meadows, her political mentor and White House chief of staff. He won the seat in the 11th district of North Carolina, one of the states considered decisive for the presidential race, beating the Democratic candidate and former Air Force colonel Moe Davis.
Accused of racism and sexual violence
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An enfant prodige of the Good old party, Cawthorn was born on August 1, 1995 and has recently reached the minimum age necessary to be elected to Congress. His election campaign was marked by accusations of racism and sexual harassment. After accusing journalist Tom Fielder of “working for non-white men like Cory Booker who aspire to ruin white men in the race for the seat” and being forced to apologize, in August 2020 he suffered complaints from several women who have pointed out finger their sexually aggressive behaviors. Cawthorn did not deny the accusations of one of these women, Katrina Krulikas, admitting that he “tried to kiss her normally, flirting” and found the timing of the accusations suspicious. accused of sexual harassment and vandalism, collecting 150 signatures from people who, according to him, the majority had not known him personally.
Rejected by the Maryland Naval Academy
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In 2014 he applied to enter the United States Naval Academy in Maryland, sponsored by Meadows himself, but his application was rejected. During the election campaign, Cawthorn told how decisively weighing on his military career ambitions was the car accident that caused him semi paralysis and forced him to sit in a wheelchair, but his statement did not stand up. to subsequent fact-finding, which showed that the application for admission had been rejected prior to the accident.
Partially paralyzed in an accident in 2014
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The crash of the van in which he was traveling, as a passenger, on Interstate 4 after returning from a vacation in Florida in the spring break of 2014, did not stop his ascent. He enrolled in Political Science at Patrick Henry College in 2016, but dropped out early after getting his fair share of poor grades. Justifying his poor grades, Cawthorn said the incident also affected his learning abilities. He entered the real estate market as the owner and sole employee of the SPQR shares, in 2019 he declared zero earnings. The name of the company has also sparked a lot of controversy, as the acronym once used to define the Roman people is used by white supremacists.
Suspicious far-right sympathies
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Cawthorn calls himself a “constitutional conservative” but has been accused of sympathizing with the far right. In 2017, he posted on Instagram a photo of his visit to Eagle’s Nest, Adolf Hitler’s summer residence in the Bavarian Alps. In the text of the post, Cawthorn referred to Hitler as the Führer and the site of “supreme evil”. To the accusations generated by the photo, Cawthorn responded by calling them “ridiculous” and saying that he “condemned all forms of white supremacism,” and later deleted the post from Instagram.
