(The Center Square) – North Carolina’s longest-serving speaker of the House of Representatives will make a congressional run in 2024.
In an anti-climatic announcement on Election Day 2023, Rep. Tim Moore made his launch official through a video distribution. The Republican from Kings Mountain, a lawyer by trade, has served in the state House since January 2003, rising to the powerful position of chairman of the rules committee in 2011 and speaker in 2015 succeeding now-U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis.
“Unlike Washington,” Moore says in the less than three-minute video, “our Republican leadership team in Raleigh has been able to undo decades of liberal, Democratic spending, lower taxes and balance the state budget. Today, every North Carolinian gets to keep more of their hard-earned money than at anytime in our state’s history.”
Moore, 53, highlighted in the video significant actions taken by the Legislature involving the business climate, abortion law, saving women’s sports, voter identification and the U.S. border. He said his conservative record of voting in Raleigh would be replicated if elected to the Beltway.
“Businesses are coming to North Carolina daily, bringing new jobs despite Joe Biden’s terrible economy,” Moore said. “Why North Carolina? Well, it’s because true Republican conservatism created the best business climate in the country.”
Moore asks himself the question, “Why am I running for Congress?”
“Because,” he says, “it’s time to fix Washington just as we have fixed Raleigh over the past decade.”
At least one primary opponent in March on Super Tuesday will be Pat Harrigan, who lost the primary to U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson in 2022. Jackson has said he’s leaving Washington to return to North Carolina and try and win the race for attorney general, where at least one of his primary opponents will be fellow U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop.
