In Madison Cawthorn's NC district, it's not the scandals that matter to voters
About a year and a half ago, Madison Cawthorn signs were all over Marion, a community of about 7,700 in one of the easternmost parts of his district. The election results corroborate this: he won McDowell County by 67 percent in the 11th Congressional District runoff, and with nearly 72 percent in the 2020 general election.
But if you drive around Marion this week, the only signs you’ll see for Cawthorn are at the McDowell County Board of Elections.
It’s not that similar signs are missing entirely in Marion. Matthew Burril, a McDowell County native and one of the eight candidates taking on Cawthorn in the Republican primary, has signs all over. The candidates aren’t missing, either: Chuck Edwards, a state senator with support from U.S. Sen Thom Tillis, held an event at Bear Creek Marina Wednesday night.
Backdropped by Lake James and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Edwards told the small crowd he decided to run “when our congressman turned his back on us and moved” to run in the 13th Congressional District, only to return to NC-11 when the maps were drawn again.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/madison-cawthorn-nc-district-not-080000664.html