Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) warned officials in North Carolina that they could face "dangerous" consequences if he is removed from the ballot for his role in inciting a failed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
Cawthorn's opponents have pushed for the congressman to be disqualified by the NC Board of Elections based on an "insurrection" clause that was added to the U.S. Constitution following the Civil War."
States have long enforced age and residency requirements, without question and with very few if any legal challenges," the Board of Elections wrote in a court filing. "The State has the same authority to police which candidates should or should not be disqualified per Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment."
Cawthorn appeared on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast on Wednesday and vowed to fight.
"This is only going to lead to one place if you want to try and take the right of the people away to be able to vote for their elected official," he told Bannon. "This is going down a very dangerous path."
The NC lawmaker predicted "Donald Trump will never be able to be president again" if NC officials successfully remove him from the ballot.
He also said that he had no regrets about his role on Jan. 6.
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