Assistant U.S. Attorney John Harris testified Wednesday he warned his father, Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Rev. Mark Harris, it was unwise to hire Bladen County political operative McCrae Dowless. But his parents shunned his advice. Mark Harris is in a legal skirmish to be seated in Congress. In the third day of a State Board of...
Andy Yates, the principal campaign strategist for Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Rev. Mark Harris, said he now questions whether McCrae Dowless legally rounded up absentee mail votes that helped to push Harris to an unofficial 905-vote win over Democrat Dan McCready in the 9th U.S. Congressional District. Yates, founder of Red Dome Group, said he had...
Carolina Journal will post the most recent developments in the continuing dispute over the outcome of the 2018 race for North Carolina’s 9th U.S. Congressional District between Republican Rev. Mark Harris, Democrat Dan McCready, and Libertarian Jeff Scott. This story will be updated frequently. For CJ’s full coverage of the 9th District controversy, visit here....
The prospect Democrats will get their wish for a new election in the 9th Congressional District could be getting stronger. A growing body of news reports suggests coordinated election irregularities occurred in Bladen and Robeson counties, challenging last month’s narrow victory by Republican Mark Harris, a Baptist preacher. Harris defeated Democrat Dan McCready, a solar...
Nationally, Democrats gained enough seats to take control of the House of Representatives. But they got little help in North Carolina, where Republicans maintained their 10-3 hold on the congressional delegation. In the most closely watched races, the Rev. Mark Harris held onto the 9th District seat he won in the GOP primary from incumbent...
U.S. House District 9 (Anson, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland, Union, and parts of Mecklenburg, Bladen, and Cumberland counties.) Mark Harris, Republican. Occupation: Pastor. Education: Appalachian State University, political science degree. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, master’s and doctor of ministry degrees. Career highlights: North Carolina Baptist Convention president; Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Board of Directors chairman; led...
The race between Republican Mark Harris and Democrat Dan McCready for the 9th U.S. Congressional District is one to watch. Recent polls show a close, competitive race for the open seat between Harris, a pastor, and McCready, a veteran and businessman. Jonathan Kappler, executive director of the North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation, said taking the district...
The Republican candidate for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District may have cause for concern. In a new poll, his Democratic challenger leads him by seven points. Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization, released a poll showing Dan McCready, the Democrat candidate, leads Republican candidate Mark Harris. The poll surveyed 543 likely voters from the...
[Editor’s note: Updated, 4:02 p.m., to include statement from Rep. Richard Hudson.] A majority of North Carolina’s congressional delegation, Republicans and Democrats, has spoken out against the separation and detainment of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border. None has supported the Trump administration’s family-separation policy. Though the state’s members of Congress support potential legislative fixes,...
Several incumbents and establishment-backed candidates lost in the May 8 primary, but those results may not signal a trend. Or offer any broader message about this fall’s general election, an expert on state voting patterns said in a post-election event. “I think we should caution against thinking that because eight incumbents lost in a primary...
The Rev. Mark Harris, who lost the 2016 Republican primary in the 9th Congressional District by 134 votes, won a rematch Tuesday with three-term incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger. Harris’ stunning win was one of many surprises in North Carolina’s 2018 election cycle — the first major test the state’s elected officials have faced with divided...
