North Carolina Sen. Tillis Backs Cawthorn’s Rival Amid Orgy-Gate

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Ca... WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) questions Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, would become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court if confirmed. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has reached the end of his rope with fellow North Carolina congressman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC).

Tillis told CNN on Wednesday that he’s backing one of Cawthorn’s seven GOP primary challengers, North Carolina state Sen. Chuck Edwards (R), in the upcoming midterms.

“It comes down to focus on the district, producing results for the district, and in my opinion, Mr. Cawthorn hasn’t demonstrated much in the way of results over the last 18 months,” Tillis said.

The senator’s announcement intensifies the blowback among GOPers against Cawthorn after he recently claimed during a podcast that unnamed members of Congress had invited him to orgies and did cocaine in front of him.

Cawthorn’s comments drew fury among his Republican colleagues, who were already inflamed by his attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier in March.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had have a chat with the 26-year-old Republican on Wednesday, with House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) in attendance.

McCarthy told Politico afterward that Cawthorn didn’t provide any evidence of the alleged orgies, and that the North Carolina Republican claimed he “doesn’t know what cocaine is.”

Cawthorn also claimed during the discussion that he might’ve confused whom he allegedly saw doing a “key bump of cocaine” in front of him, according to McCarthy. Rather than a member of Congress, “he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage maybe 100 yards away,” the House GOP leader said.

However, Cawthorn’s claims of seeing a staffer snort cocaine off a key at a nearly football field-distance and also not knowing what coke is in the first place seem to have done little to smooth things over.

Republicans’ outrage over Cawthorn’s Veep-esque account of congressional indiscretions stands in glaring contrast to their muted response to Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) speaking at a white nationalist conference last month.

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  1. Republicans’ outrage over Cawthorn’s Veep-esque account of congressional indiscretions stands in glaring contrast to their [muted response] to Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) speaking at a white nationalist conference last month.

    Because White nationalists are the base of the Republican Party.

  2. The worst part of all of this is Cawthorn has managed to inflict a black eye on cocaine fueled orgies.

  3. MadCaw is trying to singlehandedly ressurect Penthouse Letters.

    Badly…

    “I never thought this would happen to me…”, a line that is now classic thanks to Penthouse Letters…

  4. Hmmmm - Tillis is around the age that Cawthorn was talking about. And both are from NC so I’m guessing Tillis is one of those guys Cawthorn “looked up to”. They are even from the same part of the state.

    So Thom - had any parties lately?

  5. Tom “Penile Projection” Tillis claims what?? There’s nothing worse than a boring orgy!!

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