Election 2022-North Carolina-Aiken
FILE – Clay Aiken performs at the “American Idol” farewell season finale in Los Angeles on April 7, 2016. The former “American Idol” runner-up announced on Monday that he’s running for Congress again in North Carolina, this time seeking to succeed the retiring U.S. Rep. David Price. In 2014, Aiken won the Democratic nomination for a largely rural central congressional district in 2014, edging former state Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco. But he lost in the general election to then-Republican incumbent Renee Ellmers, receiving 41% of the vote.(Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)