Two weeks after gathering a crowd of Trump supporters with allegations of electoral fraud ahead of the January 6 Capitol Uprising, Republican Party Representative Madison Cawthorn tried to rehabilitate her stance in Saturday’s presidential election on Saturday. night, only to drop his whole argument dramatically.
Pressed by Pamela Brown of CNN to explain what evidence had motivated him to contest the election results in the first place, Cawthorn visibly struggled to put together a coherent argument.
“The things I didn’t oppose the election in the name of things were like Dominion voting machines changing ballots, or those U-Haul trucks that were full of ballots for Joe Biden as president. objected was things like, as I said in the state of Wisconsin, particularly in the city of Madison … there was a designated official in that city who really went against the will of the state legislature and created ballot boxes, which is basically the collection of ballots that happened in the parks, ”he said.
After Brown noticed that everything Cawthorn mentioned had already been litigated in court and thrown out by Trump-appointed judges, the 25-year-old rep swerved in a vague babble.
“In fact, I think specifically … and that’s what I debated on behalf of the House of Representatives … in Wisconsin that was never heard because he was fired for his position. Now I don’t think it’s a concrete enough way … to rule it out, “he said.
When asked to give specific examples of fraud, Cawthorn found himself in a corner.
“Like I said, that’s not the reason I contested the election,” he said, just delving deeper.
“Then you wanted to cast millions of votes without seeing any concrete evidence of fraud?” Brown asked. “Because that’s what you did when you contested the election.”
After briefly writhing in silence, Cawthorn replied, “I do not agree with you on this point” and insisted that he had only contested the election to “keep the Constitution.”
Strangely, after Brown noted that North Carolina’s own state of Cawthorn had also changed election laws in connection with the coronavirus pandemic – something the Republican Party representative had controversial in Wisconsin – he admitted he was confused about the laws of their state of origin.
“Actually, I am not aware of the laws that were changed in North Carolina. I think we had a very safe and very safe election here, “he said.
Although Cawthorn had joined other Republicans in trying to block certification of Biden’s victory, both before and after the Jan. 6 deadly riots, and had even praised Trump supporters gathered that day at the Capitol for the “struggle” they had in them to stop. “All the fraud” in the election, at the end of Saturday night’s interview, his entire narrative had fallen around him.
“Yes, I think I would say the election was not fraudulent,” he told Brown. “The Constitution allowed us to back down as much as we could and I did so to the amount of constitutional limits I had at my disposal, so now I would say that Joseph R. Biden is our president.”