Cawthorn expresses concern about election fraud claims after earlier stoking them - POLITICO

COLLECTED BY

Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: Archive Team: URLs

TIMESTAMPS

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20210112174717/https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/cawthorn-election-fraud-concerns-458217

Cawthorn expresses concern about election fraud claims after earlier stoking them

The Republican freshman appeared at a rally in front of the White House before the deadly siege on the Capitol.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) speaks.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) speaks as the House debates the objection to confirm the Electoral College vote from Pennsylvania, at the U.S. Capitol. | House Television via AP

North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a Republican freshman who voted last week to overturn the presidential election results, expressed regret about claims of election fraud in a local TV interview.

"Once you start floating this idea of election fraud and people outright stealing an election and cheating, that has only one outcome,” Cawthorn said in an interview with ABC-11. “The party as a whole should have been much more wise about their choice of words.”

Before Trump-supporting rioters violently stormed the Capitol Wednesday afternoon and delayed President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory certification, Cawthorn spoke at a rally in front of the White House, leading “USA” chants. That morning, he tweeted, “Heart of a Lion, soul of a Patriot.”

In December, he urged supporters to “lightly threaten” lawmakers not supporting “election integrity,” according to the Charlotte Observer.

“Call your congressman and feel free, you can lightly threaten them and say, you know what, if you don’t start supporting election integrity, I’m coming after you, Madison Cawthorn is coming after you, everybody’s coming after you,” Cawthorn said at a Turning Point USA event, according to the Observer.

After the riot last week, Cawthorn denounced the violence, calling it “thuggery.” In the ABC-11 interview, Cawthorn said he did not support impeaching President Donald Trump but called for rioters to be held accountable.