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Bo Hines moved to North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District from the other side of the state because it was his best shot at getting political power – and that political opportunism was on full display in The Raleigh News & Observer today.
The profile of Hines highlights his district-shopping to try and find a place to run for Congress as part of his quest for political power. The News & Observer reported that even before his 20th birthday, Hines told them “that he wanted to be North Carolina’s governor one day, or president of the United States.”
For mysterious reasons, Hines didn’t appear to want to give an interview for his own profile: “McClatchy wasn’t able to interview Hines at a time his campaign said it could make him available, and the campaign didn’t respond to further requests for comment.”
“Bo Hines knows that the more North Carolinians learn about him, the less they’ll find to like,” said DCCC spokesperson Monica Robinson. “He’s a political megalomaniac who decided he wanted to be president of the United States before he turned 20 years old. His first real job out of college shouldn’t be Congress.”
Raleigh News & Observer: Bo Hines turned from football to politics. He’s moving closer to one of his goals.
By Danielle Battaglia
September 28, 2022
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“Between his freshman and sophomore years Hines chose Yale University over the Wolfpack because, he says, he believed Yale’s political science program would open more doors for him professionally.”
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“Even before his 20th birthday, Hines told The News & Observer that he wanted to be North Carolina’s governor one day, or president of the United States.”
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“‘He started running in another district and moved to the 13th when it became clear that that was his best path toward victory,’ said Chris Cooper, a political science professor at Western Carolina University.”
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“The only financial disclosure he made this year was that he has a trust fund and this year took somewhere between $100,000 and $1 million from it.”
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“His age, political aspirations and rhetoric quickly garnered comparisons to U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a political spitfire from Western North Carolina, whose laundry list of scandals would eventually cost him a second term in office.”
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“But before Cawthorn’s political fallout, the two young politicians appeared together frequently.”
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“Hines appeared with Trump at a rally in North Carolina and gained his endorsement, and he told the Washington Post the 2020 election was stolen. He said he believed abortions should be banned with no exceptions and that schools like Yale are liberal indoctrination programs.”
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“For Hines, that meant clearing his website of references to abortion. Abortion became a hot-button issue following the primary when in June the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 landmark decision that gave women the right to abortions. Republicans around the country have since tried to back away from more extreme positions on the subject.”
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“Still, after the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Hines called for defunding the FBI.”
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