Who is pro-Trump congressman Madison Cawthorn?

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He said he told doctors that he expected to recover and that he would “be at the Naval Academy by Christmas.” Key parts of Mr Cawthorn’s talk, however, were not true. Mr Cawthorn’s campaign website said Senator Cory Booker, who is black, wanted to “ruin” white males running for office, an assertion Mr Booker denounced as “rank racism.” Mr Cawthorn’s election also came despite an extraordinary effort by former classmates and other alumni of Patrick Henry College urging that the voters of North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District reject him on grounds of alleged sexual misconduct. At the time, she didn’t complain because she felt she had “put myself in that situation.” But as she grew older, she said, she believed Mr Cawthorn deserved blame, and “I definitely would classify it as sexual assault because he knew I said no.” Ms Krulikas first told of the encounter last August in World Magazine, a publication based in Asheville, North Carolina, that describes itself as “grounded in facts and biblical truth.” Mr Cawthorn, whose work experience had mainly been at a Chick-fil-A, got a part-time job working at the district office of then-Representative Mr Meadows. In a six-minute video posted to Twitter on 31 December 2020, Cawthorn said, “My first act as a member of Congress will be to object to the electoral college certification of the 2020 election.” To justify his decision, he repeated a host of false and misleading claims about the election, accusing various state election officials of violating the law even though courts across the country and Mr Trump’s own attorney general, William Barr, rejected these allegations.