'American Idol' singer Clay Aiken to run for Congress in North Carolina

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'American Idol' singer Clay Aiken to run for Congress in North Carolina

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/39-american-idol-39-singer-clay-aiken-run-132534536--sector.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RQoIpvUr8CHw6jPmGsyFvQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-02-05T143032Z_255675073_TM4EA250PFF01_RTRMADP_3_USA-AIKEN.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="File photo of Clay Aiken from North Carolina reacts to judges comments after his performance for the title of American Idol in Los Angeles" align="left" title="File photo of Clay Aiken from North Carolina reacts to judges comments after his performance for the title of American Idol in Los Angeles" border="0" /></a>By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former &quot;American Idol&quot; singer Clay Aiken said on Wednesday he will run for U.S. Congress as a Democrat in his home state of North Carolina, where he once worked as a special education teacher. Aiken, 35, is likely to face a tough battle in his efforts to unseat Representative Renee Ellmers, a Tea Party Republican favorite, in the state's conservative 2nd congressional district. He filmed the video in a small North Carolina home where he said he and his mother slept for months on a mattress in a friend's living room when he was young. He noted his work teaching children with autism and his international travels with aid organization UNICEF, bookends to his runner-up finish in 2003 on the &quot;American Idol&quot; television talent show that thrust him into the national spotlight.</p><br clear="all"/>

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