North Carolina speaker of the House Tim Moore is telling Tar Heel State Republicans he’s planning to run for Congress in the state’s 14th congressional district, a half-dozen sources familiar with the matter tell National Review. The speaker’s spokeswoman declined to comment about whether he has made a final decision on the matter.
Moore’s impending announcement, first reported Thursday evening by National Review, comes one week after North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state legislature passed new congressional maps that strongly favor Republicans this cycle.
“He is planning to run,” one North Carolina House Republican told National Review on Thursday evening. “That is what he has told me.” Another House Republican “expects” him to run.
Moore is expected to face declared candidate Pat Harrigan, a businessman, Green Beret, and former congressional candidate, in the GOP primary. North Carolina superior court judge Eric Levinson, who filed congressional paperwork in August before the new lines were drawn, is also expected to run in the district and could make a formal announcement on his decision in the coming days.
This is a developing story