“McCartney said Cottorn said at a meeting Wednesday that his claims were” “Excessive.”
The 26-year-old MP has often been the subject of controversy, even as he called the Ukrainian government “incredibly evil” and its wartime leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, “Avazak”.
Tillis said in a statement Thursday that Edwards would “never attack Ukraine’s freedom struggle and will not speak out against Putin’s Russian sanctions and that it will be used as propaganda by Russia’s state television.”
Another North Carolina senator, Republican Senator Richard Barry, told CNN he won’t be attending the Cawthorn primer, but that “every day is embarrassing.”
Cawthorn will face seven Republican rivals in the primary on May 17. Many prominent Republicans support Edward, including leaders of the State House and the Senate.
Source: Huffpost
