“The brashness that catapulted freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn to national attention is wearing on some of his voters here in his rural district in the Blue Ridge Mountains,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The youngest member of Congress, now 26 years old, shocked the party when he won the GOP primary runoff in 2020. Mr. Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair and ran on a personal story of resilience, got a prime speaking slot at the party’s national convention that year and has been a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump. But support in his home district has been shaken by a series of gaffes—including off-the-cuff allegations about fellow lawmakers’ drug habits—that have left him vulnerable in the GOP primary.”
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