AIKEN NEWS NETWORK OCT 6 & 7, 2014

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Gene & Julie Show ?@GeneAndJulie · 6m6 minutes ago
Gonna watch the @ClayAiken / @Renee4Congress debate tonight on WRAL TV? @CrabberWRAL joins us next to give us... http://fb.me/3DnVJ4m8V

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Joshua LXXXI ?@Blueberrier0341 · 20m20 minutes ago
Reminder : @RepReneeEllmers debates @ClayAiken today http://wral.com/14048075 #ncga #ncpol #tcot #ncnews #RedNC #RedNationRising #Pjnet #p2

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Clay Aiken retweeted
WRAL NEWS in NC ?@WRAL 2h2 hours ago

New story: Ellmers debates Aiken for US House district in NC http://wral.com/14048075 #wral

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Sydni ?@sydniparham · 7m7 minutes ago
Lol clay Aiken is in Pinehurst

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Harry Thompson ?@harrythompson · 1h1 hour ago
Clay Aiken is taking part in a political debate today. Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.

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Ellmers debates Aiken for US House district in NC

Posted 4:16 a.m. today
Updated 5:44 a.m. today

 
PINEHURST, N.C. — The Republican former nurse who upset a congressman to win a seat in the U.S. House is matching wits with a former entertainer who wants to take her place.

Incumbent Congresswoman Renee Ellmers meets Democrat and former pop singer Clay Aiken for a debate Monday in Pinehurst. They're vying to represent the 2nd Congressional District. It's a district shaped like an uneven U that includes Asheboro, Fayetteville, communities surrounding Fort Bragg and suburbs south and west of Raleigh.

The hour-long debate before delegates to a North Carolina Bankers Association conference will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Monday on WRAL and at 11 p.m. on WRAZ Fox 50. The video will also be available for viewing on WRAL.com through Election Day.

WRAL News anchor David Crabtree will moderate the debate.

Ellmers is seeking her third term since narrowly beating longtime Democratic congressman Bob Etheridge in 2010.

Aiken first gained fame as a singer on "American Idol."

WRAL.COM

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Jon Camp ?@JonCampABC11 · 47s47 seconds ago
Prep work underway in Pinehurst for the first debate between Rep. Renee Ellmers and challenger Clay Aiken.

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sloane heffernan ?@wralsloane · 17s18 seconds ago
Preparing for the debate between Renee Ellmers & Clay Aiken in Pinehurst. #wral @clayaiken @RepReneeEllmers

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mark binker ?@binker · now35 seconds ago
Clay Aiken speaks with @crabberwral before the 2d district debate, which airs tonight at 7 pm on WRAL. #ncpol

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Barry Smith ?@Barry_Smith · now19 seconds ago
Renee Ellmers & Clay Aiken are mic-ed up for their debate. #ncpol #nc02

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Clay Aiken ?@clayaiken · 48s48 seconds ago
Ready for the debate. Watch it tonight on @WRAL at 7pm. #ncpol #nc02

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Ellmers to Aiken: "These things are fluid. Maybe as an entertainer, you're not aware of that."
@ClayForNC @RepReneeEllmers #ncpol @WNCN

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Matt Cordell ?@MattCordell 9m9 minutes ago
I have a nearly front-row seat to the @RepReneeEllmers & @clayaiken congress'nl debate @NCBankers Conf. Watch @ 7:00

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Ellmers to Aiken: "It's almost as if as an entertainer, you think you can go in with a song and dance." Talking about the 440th. @WNCN

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Aiken to Ellmers: "She's good at calling me an entertainer. But she cannot say she's working for the people of the second district." @WNCN