Of all of the Republican members of Congress who have been implicated in helping to incite the events of January 6 at the Capitol, perhaps none ever used more public references to a “battle” over the election than Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina.

The 26-year-old freshman Congressman has invoked vi0lent imagery time and again. He has engaged his evangelical base in what he calls a “spiritual battle” to “take our country back” from Democrats. Speaking at the January 6 rally before the riot, he called for a decidedly non-peaceful outcome if elections continued to be “stolen” from Republicans and Trump.

None of those involved seem to appreciate the irony of the fact that they were first elected in the very same elections they’re calling fraudulent.

But Cawthorn has been more vocal than even loudmouths like Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

One young constituent at a recent town hall with Cawthorn decided to confront him on his repeated attacks on American democracy:

I asked Madison Cawthorn why he won’t stop attacking our democracy.

He was upset. Here’s his response: pic.twitter.com/RgIc1pcf2A

— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) October 25, 2021

A majority of Republicans believe that Biden was not lawfully elected. Now, you know that he was, and that he won the 2020 election. So when will you stop lying to your constituents, admit that Donald Trump lost, and end this senseless attack on our democracy?

Cawthorn was not pleased. Repeating an argument that failed again and again in court disputes over the election, the Congressman attempted to claim that states had illegally changed laws regarding voting and that this made the election invalid.

But in the 60 court cases that Donald Trump lost, it was repeatedly found that any changes to electoral policy in those states that amended their laws leading up to the election were justified by the fact that we were in the middle of a pandemic.

That’s the way of the Republicans, though: Their argument is basically that voting should not have been expanded to allow poll access to as many people as possible. And after getting called out by a kid even younger than he is, Cawthorn just doubled down on the Big Lie.