Here’s a wild comeback: North Carolina Republican Mark Harris, who was at the center of an election fraud scandal over the 2018 midterms, has won the GOP nomination for the state’s 8th Congressional District, AP projects.
Why it matters: Harris, a Baptist preacher, will be a favorite in November against Democrat Justin Dues in a safe Republican district where nearly 60% of voters supported Trump in 2020.
Flashback: Months after he claimed a narrow 2018 victory in the 9th District race, Harris gave up the seat amid allegations that a political operative he’d hired cooked up an absentee ballot-harvesting scheme in rural Bladen County.
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