Clay Aiken wants to explain why he’s running for Congress in North Carolina.
In a thirty-second Youtube clip, the singer discusses growing up with a mother who’d escaped a violent husband and his work for children with autism.
“[E]very child deserves a chance,” Aiken says, “but too many in Washington are letting them down.”
The former American Idol runner-up has played up his ties to former president George W. Bush, who appointed Aiken to a presidential commission for children with special needs.
Aiken is running as a Democrat in a deeply red district against the Republican incumbent, Rep. Renee Ellmers.
