, announced Monday that he’s running for Congress in North Carolina’s 6th District via a chatty campaign video. In it, he reintroduces himself by referring to some images from hisbut we’ve met before. I’m Clay Aiken. Most of you probably remember me like this: Skinny.”
It’s going great so far! In a smart blazer, queerish lavender shirt, and jeans that suggest at least an undercurrent of hip with-it-ness, Aiken runs down his last 20 years , gives a brief history lesson on what cell phones used to be like, and positions himself as a progressive alternative to the likes of white nationalist North Carolina rep Madison Cawthorn and the state’s virulently homophobic lieutenant governor Mark “the antics of Cawthorn and Robinson, as well as the likes of...
The current rep of the district in which Aiken is running, David Price, announced his retirement in October. A primary election will take place in May, with other reported Democratic candidates Sens. Valerie Foushee and Wiley Nickel, as well as Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam. Aiken previously ran for North Carolina Congress in 2014, losing to incumbent Republican Renee Ellmers.
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