Madison Cawthorn Challenger's Twitter Following Grows 20 Times in One Day On 3/4/21 at 11:45 AM EST A Democrat hoping to challenge freshman Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn has multiplied her Twitter following by more than 20 in a single day. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara appealed for new followers on Wednesday after announcing her candidacy in the 11th district of North Carolina. At the time she had about 4,500 followers. By Thursday morning, 24 hours later, that had grown to more than 102,000. "I am Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara. I am running against Madison Cawthorn. I have 4.5K followers. My opponent has 256K," Beach-Ferrara wrote. "Can you please retweet this and ask everyone you know to follow this account to build our platform?"