Two weeks after GOP Representative Madison Cawthorn rocked a crowd of Trump supporters on Saturday night with electoral fraud claims, GOP Representative Madison Cawthorn attempted to rehabilitate his stance on Saturday night’s presidential election – only to disintegrate his entire argument. in a spectacular way.
Under pressure from CNN’s Pamela Brown to explain what evidence motivated him to contest the election results in the first place, Cawthorn visibly struggled to piece together a coherent argument.
“The things I didn’t object to in the election were things like Dominion voting machines changing ballots, or these U-Haul trucks filling up with ballots for Joe Biden as president. What I objected to are things like, as I said in the state of Wisconsin, specifically in the city of Madison … there was an appointed official in that city who went against the will of the legislature and created ballot boxes, that is basically harvesting ballots in the parks, ”he said.
After Brown noted that everything mentioned by Cawthorn had already been subpoenaed in court and thrown out by Trump-appointed judges, the 25-year-old representative turned into vague chatter.
‘Indeed, I specifically believe … and this is the one I debated on behalf of the House of Representatives … in Wisconsin that was never heard because they turned it down because they stand. Now I don’t believe that’s a concrete way … to turn it down, ”he said.
Asked to provide specific examples of fraud, Cawthorn found himself in a corner.
“Like I said, that’s not why I ran in the election,” he said, just digging deeper.
“So you wanted to cast millions of votes without seeing concrete evidence of fraud?” Brown asked. “Because you did when you ran in the election.”
After pondering for a moment, Cawthorn replied, “I disagree with you on that point,” and insisted that he had only fought the elections to “uphold the Constitution.”
Curiously, after pointing out that Cawthorn’s home state of North Carolina had also changed election laws in connection with the coronavirus pandemic – something the GOP representative in Wisconsin had objected to – Brown admitted that he had no idea about the laws in his home state.
“I’m actually not aware of the laws that have changed in North Carolina. I believe we had a very safe and very secure election here, ”he said.
While Cawthorn along with other Republicans tried to block certification of Biden’s victory both before and after the deadly January 6 riots, even praising Trump supporters who gathered in the Capitol that day for the “ fight ” they had in them to stop “All Fraud” in the election, by the end of the Saturday night interview, his whole story had poured out around him.
“Yes, I think I would say the election was not fraudulent,” he told Brown. “The constitution allowed us to push back as much as possible and I did that to the amount of constitutional limits that I had, so now I would say Joseph R. Biden is our president.”