With just months to go until his one and only term in Congress is set to end, North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn is closing out his time in office much like it began — under a cloud of shady, self-serving confusion.
According to federal finance filings analyzed by The Daily Beast, Cawthorn is hundreds of thousands of dollars in the red, after personally dumping more than $800,000 into his own campaign and only recouping around a third of that amount. All told, Cawthorn is out more than half a million bucks, per the filings, with nothing to show for it but a failed re-election bid and a reputation in tatters.
