{"id":47962,"date":"2022-05-05T15:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47962"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:50:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:50:26","slug":"cawthorn-ramps-up-defense-as-crass-videos-add-to-mountain-of-bad-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47962","title":{"rendered":"Cawthorn ramps up defense as crass videos add to mountain of bad press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.\u00a0Madison Cawthorn\u00a0(R-N.C.) is speaking out more forcefully against a barrage of negative news stories about him as he tries to hang on to political life less than two weeks before a contentious primary vote with top Republicans in his state working against him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cawthorn had largely avoided directly addressing allegations of insider trading, twice taking a loaded firearm to the airport, getting speeding tickets and more. But an anti-Cawthorn PAC\u2019s recent release of videos showing the 26-year-old first-term lawmaker engaging in suggestive and vulgar behavior has pushed him to be more vocal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.\u00a0Madison Cawthorn\u00a0(R-N.C.) is speaking out more&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47963,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47962\/revisions\/47963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}