Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) dropped his reelection bid early Wednesday morning, leaving party leaders in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District scrambling to find someone to replace him on the ballot.
The district’s Republican executive committee will convene next week to select a new candidate to replace Edwards after a House Ethics Committee report outlined a slew of inappropriate actions the lawmaker allegedly took toward two female staffers.
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