Madison Cawthorn, the 24-year-old unexpected winner of North Carolina’s Republican primary runoff election in the state’s 11th Congressional District, explained that his local roots accounted for his landslide victory against Lynda Bennett, his Trump-endorsed rival.
Don’t anybody get excited. Cawthorn is an eager Donnie supporter in a very red area of the state. The undoing of the gerrymander that kept the odious Mark Meadows in that seat may have some effect, but it will not be easy to overcome the deep and vast ignorance of the MAGATs in the county
Don’t get too excited. This guy is a home-schooled, religion-nutcase, gun-humping, wingnut.
Was kinda’ happy for him until:
… he still supports “our great president” and that he doesn’t believe his upset win over Bennett was “a referendum on the President’s influence. I look forward to fighting alongside our president after I’m elected in November,”
We need to roast 'em all over an open pit.
Can I throw some chestnuts in there?
And a trumpturd as well. Make no mistake he would run his campaign making it clear how much he supports Donald Trump. Even Jeff Sessions can’t avoid licking Trump’s anus.
…he still supports “our great president.”
Let’s see if he changes his tune when Trump attacks him in a tweetstorm.
Bennett was supposed to keep the seat warm until Meadows wanted it back. The best laid plans of mice and men…
Will this help Dem candidate in fall or is district safe red?
It should help, and the district was safe red, but they change the district lines, with Asheville being completely in district 11 now… i haven’t seen a run down of what the vote totals would of been if you took the votes from 2016 and used the new district lines.
Eager donnie supporter or not he’ll be a member of the House controlled by Democrats with a President Biden and hopefully a Democratic majority in the Senate. If he wants to represent the KKK and Neo-Nazis and Anti-intellectual bigots, so be it. His chosen political cult will no longer control the levers of power at the national level.
Even though this district surrounds Asheville, which is arguably the most “liberal” city in NC, it was heavily gerrymandered in 2011 to keep dem damn librul hippies out of it. So it is still solidly red.
I don’t share your optimism, but I hope you are right.
NC-11 has been redrawn for the November 2020 election and so will be competitive in November. WNC political prof. sez it’s still +8 on republican side, but I see it as competitive from the completely gerrymandered one since 2010.
I can only hope (my District.) But I do not share any optimism. Although some of my county commissioners formally left the GOP to be undeclared last year due to toxicity, so who knows?
I have only recently (and regrettably) moved back to the Carolinas. So Asheville is fully included in 11th for 2020? That is good news… I guess?
this guy isn’t even old enough to be a congressman, how the fuck was he able to run?
I did a rough estimate of what would of happen if you took the new map and used the 2016 results, while the Dems would likely would of closed their vote gap by half, but they need to do quite a bit better than 2016 to take it.
If Biden takes the state, it likely means Dems will take this district or at least it will be close, but if drump takes the state then the chances of Dems picking up this district is very low.
Cawthorn asserted that his campaign’s “biggest message,” while comparing himself to Bennett, was he was “not beholden to any Washington, D.C. insiders.”
Except Donald Trump.
Can I throw some chestnuts in there?
Ewww. Way to ruin perfectly good chestnuts!