'American Idol' star Clay Aiken aims to be South's first openly gay Congressman with North Carolina run

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Aiken listed a series of Price's accomplishments, from bringing the Environmental Protection Agency onto one campus in the Triangle to fighting for federal dollars to expand U.S. Highway 64 from two to four lanes.
54% : Aiken said he wants to go to Washington to address climate change, systemic racism, income inequality and gun violence, and work for voting rights, abortion rights and universal health care access.
35% : Many of the counties in the district had voted by much higher margins, just two years earlier, in favor of a constitutional amendment to keep same-sex marriage illegal.

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