The photos, obtained by Politico and look to make even the most devoted partiers blush, show the 26-year-old Republican with a vacant look in his eyes, wearing women's hoop earrings and a woman's necklace along with a bra and lingerie set 'What Royal Caribbean event has you sharing your underwear, putting lipstick on strangers and screaming at the top of your lungs? It's the Quest game show, the adults-only scavenger hunt that ranks as a cruise can't-miss,' says of the game. 'I guess the left thinks goofy vacation photos during a game on a cruise (taken waaay before I ran for Congress) is going to somehow hurt me? They're running out of things to throw at me.' he wrote on Twitter.Ĭawthorn shared a link describing the Royal Caribbean Quest Game Show. It's unclear when they were taken, but he appears to be sitting in his wheelchair, indicating they were taken after the car accident that left him paralyzed in 2014.Ĭawthorn brushed off the photos on Twitter in the aftermath, claiming it was all part of a cruise ship game and was another attack from the left. A second former confidante of Cawthorn verified the photos. Screenshots of the photos were provided to the outlet by someone who used to be close to Cawthorn and his campaign. The photos, which were obtained by Politico show Cawthorn, with a vacant look in his eyes, wearing women's hoop earrings and a woman's necklace along with a bra and lingerie set. Last month, several photos emerged showing Cawthorn dressed in women's lingerie, chugging wine and surrounded by women. 'We will.'Ĭawthorn is facing an unusually crowded GOP primary for an incumbent Congressman, after facing several scandals. 'I'm NOT backing down,' he continued, adding: 'I told you there would be a drip, drip campaign.
'A new hit against me just dropped,' he tweeted on Wednesday night, explaining: 'Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. Now, Cawthorn says the video - which has been viewed 652,800 times on Twitter - was a joke. Someone else - presumably the person taking the video - could be heard laughing in the background and telling Cawthorn to 'stick it in his face.' It shows Cawthorn, 26, screaming and chanting as he started thrusting against an unknown man's face. Wheeler, president of the PAC, said in a statement that the video was 'passed to us by a former supporter' of Cawthorn but would not name the source. Soon after, it started circulating widely on Twitter, according to WRAL.ĭavid B. The video was first published by American Muckrakers PAC, a political group that runs the Fire Madison Cawthorn website, ahead of North Carolina's May 17 primary. Madison Cawthorn responded Wednesday night to a video circulating on social media showing him naked and thrusting his pelvis at another man's head. Published: 06:40 BST, | Updated: 12:57 BST, Įmbattled Republican Rep.