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Shake Up

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Trial Balloon · Ep. 195: Shake Up

Mark Harris Won’t Run Again In North Carolina

February 26, 2019 · 2:47 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Citing his health, Mark Harris (R) said that he won’t run in a new election for North Carolina’s 9th congressional district, the Charlotte Observer reports.

Washington Post: “Harris was ahead by 905 votes in North Carolina’s 9th District after the midterm election last year, but evidence emerged that a Harris campaign operative had improperly collected absentee ballots. State election officials last week voted unanimously to throw out the November results of the race between Harris and Dan McCready (D).”

2019 Campaign Mark Harris, NC-9

GOP Candidate Said No Peace In Israel Until Jews Convert

November 4, 2018 · 8:55 am ET · Leave a Comment

North Carolina congressional candidate Mark Harris (R), a former Baptist pastor in Charlotte, said in 2011 that there would be no peace in Israel unless Jews and Muslims converted to Christianity, The Forward reports.

Said Harris: “You cannot be in that land, as powerful and as moving as it is, without realizing the incredible tension that is constantly in that land between the Palestinians and the Jews. There will never be peace in Jerusalem until the day comes that every knee shall bow, every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.”

Religion Israel, Mark Harris

GOP Candidate Fondly Recalls ‘Criminalized’ Homosexuality

August 11, 2018 · 11:10 am ET · Leave a Comment

North Carolina congressional candidate Mark Harris (R) said in a 2015 speech that the United States had descended into “moral decay” and cited as one of several examples that “we have watched in one generation where homosexuality was once criminalized to now we see the criminalization of Christianity,” according to video found by Media Matters.

2018 Campaign Mark Harris, NC-9

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