There were ethics issues, gun-related incidents, and driving violations. The comments about everyone from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came after that. Republicans had enough of freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn after he claimed his colleagues participated in cocaine-fueled orgies.
A once-rising star in Republican politics, a congressman from North Carolina, lost the GOP primary to a state senator.
His ousting raises a question of why local and national Republicans have not done more to boot another freshman Republican with a penchant for inflammatory statements.
A member of the Republican National Committee told Insider that both of their reputations are terrible.
The RNC member said that he made the mistake of accusing Republicans of something, but not of bad things about other Congress people.
After being elected to a safe red district in Georgia in 2020 she was removed from her committee assignments due to a series of inflammatory, conspiratorial, and anti-Semitic statements she posted before she held office.
She has gotten into confrontations with her colleagues on Capitol Hill, including one that caused a Democratic member to move offices. The RNC member noted that she has tended to lay off her GOP colleagues with some exceptions, such as Liz Cheney, who is fighting for survival in a primary race.
It has come under scrutiny, for example, for an incident at President Joe Biden's state of the union address and also for speaking at a white-national.
On Tuesday night, she easily defeated multiple Republican challengers with 70% of the vote, facing no opposition from the Republican party apparatus in her state.
There was a big financial edge to Greene. She established herself as a highly effective small-donor fundraiser early on, and has used her platform to boost other Republican candidates. She and Gaetz formed a joint committee to raise money.
She has raised $9.2 million, spent $8.6 million, and has $3 million in cash on hand.
Cawthorn made a big splash on social media but failed to match the amount of money raised. He only brought in $3.6 million, spent nearly all of it, and has less than half of the debt his campaign holds.
Cawthorn outraised and outspent his competitors, but it wasn't enough to save him in the end.
Like other ambitious politicians, Cawthorn had a leadership PAC, which he referred to as MADISON. Within 24 hours of Cawthorn losing his primary, the PAC shut down.
Insider's Warren Rojas reported from a rally held for gubernatorial candidate David Perdue in the district of the man.
Cawthorn was largely MIA in his own district in the weeks leading up to his primary, which was documented by Michael Kruse for a piece on the last days of his campaign.
In the middle of last week, in the middle of a campaign, his main district office was locked.
The group that posted a sexually explicit video of a nude Cawthorn in bed with another man didn't bother with Greene's race and is now focusing on Representative Lauren Boebert.
David B. Wheeler, a Democrat and co-founding member of the group, said that the desire to take her down is not going to happen in that district. They love her.
Wheeler said that they are not going to spend resources or donors money just to raise money.
The RNC member explained that Cawthorn's ousting became personal for the party establishment because of the headaches he caused for congressional Republican leadership.
The RNC member said that it was personal for them to get rid of him because of the direction he took.
Nicole Gaudiano contributed.
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