Madison Cawthorn, the wheelchair-bound Congressman from North Carolina, has lost his bid for another term in the US Congress.
The 26-year-old, who uses a wheelchair after a car accident in 2014, lost a primary election on Tuesday, to elect the Republican candidate to run in November’s election for Congress.
Cawthorn was unseated by Chuck Edwards, a North Carolina state senator.
Cawthorn has courted controversy in recent times. He claimed that the 2020 US Presidential election was fraudulent, although he did backtrack on the claims later. He also claimed that he was invited to orgies by senior figures in the Republican Party. Recently images emerged of him dressed in women’s lingerie.
Analysts believe that these issues, along with a number of other controversial statements by the young man, saw Republicans in his district turn against him, and rather go with a safer pair of hands in Edwards.
Cawthorn’s loss could be seen as a blow to the Trump wing of the Republican Party, but time will tell.
Cawthorn was the first US Congressman to be born in the 1990s, and the youngest since Jed Johnson Jr, who served in the Congress in the 1960s.
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