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A video is going viral of a congressional candidate in North Carolina admitting she is truly a “progressive” even though she is running as a Republican.
“Are you trying to trick people?” Katie Barr, who is running in North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District, was asked on a podcast called “The Hometown Holler.”
“If you go on the campaign website, above the fold as they call it, is like, ‘I’m not a real Republican.’ Like, I am telling people the truth. I knock on a door and say, ‘I am running in the Republican primary, but I am not a Republican, I am a progressive,’” Barr responded. “I can’t claim a Democrat anymore.”
She added that her goal is not “to pull a fast one,” claiming she is just “being dead honest with people about what I would do if I win.”
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Progressive candidate for the U.S. House in North Carolina, Kate Barr, was pressed on why she is running in the Republican primary during a viral podcast appearance. (Kate Barr Can Win/Getty Images)
On Nov. 6, Barr filed paperwork to challenge incumbent Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C., to represent the state’s 14th Congressional District.
Barr states on her website’s home page that she is running as a Republican because it’s “the only way to kick these corrupt cowards out of office.” She claims that Republicans have “rigged the maps” to ensure they will come out victors “every time.”
“The general election has already been decided. So – the primary is the only competition for this job,” Barr’s website explains.
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Rep. Tim Moore, R-N.C., is being challenged by a progressive candidate running as a Republican in the district’s GOP primary. (Getty Images)
Barr reiterated that she has been “honest” about who she is and how she plans to govern “from the start” in a…
