Rep. Madison Cawthorn Claims 2020 Election Was ‘Unconstitutional’
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) insists that President Joe Biden did not legally win the 2020 presidential election. During a town hall event on Sunday, a student activist asked Cawthorn, “A majority of Republicans…
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) insists that President Joe Biden did not legally win the 2020 Presidential Election.
During a town hall event on Sunday, a student activist asked Cawthorn, “A majority of Republicans believe that President Biden was not lawfully elected. Now you know that he was and that he won the 2020 election. So when will you stop lying to your constituents, admit that Donald Trump lost, and end this senseless attack on our democracy?”
The North Carolina Congressman responded by saying he “wholeheartedly” disagrees with the statement that Biden legally won the election. He added, “It was an unconstitutional election.”
Cawthorn explained, “So as you can all see in Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, the only people who have a right to change election law in the United States of America, are the state legislatures. You saw in six key states, namely Wisconsin and Arizona, as the worst perpetrators.”
“The state governors and the Board of Elections there who actually went around the will of the state legislature and changed election laws on their own. That is unconstitutional. When you have voter drop boxes that are set up in parks when you didn’t give it a signature verification of voter identification laws, that is against the law and is an unconstitutional thing,” he continued.
Finally, he asked, “Are you against the Constitution?”
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Other Congressional Republicans have cited changes to election laws made in 2020 to make it easier for voters to cast their ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a cause for concern.