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Mark Harris

US Representative (R-NC-8)
Tracked because Sitting member of the House; tracked for votes, donor mapping, and committee oversight.
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Mark Harris is the Republican U.S. Representative (NC's 8th congressional district). The platform has 2 voting records on file (2025) and 68 verified facts on file covering this member's voting positions, financial disclosures, and stated platform commitments.

Facts on record34
Connections mapped25
Sources cited29
✦ Thin coverage gap +21 connected to 25 entities · only 34 facts on record · flagged for follow-up research
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Key Connections
← Culac The PAC Of Credit Union National Association organization
donor
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00007880/
← National Association Of Realtors PAC organization
donor
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00030718/
← House Conservatives Fund organization
donor
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (3 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00326439/
← Huckpac Operating Account organization
donor
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00431809/
← Huck PAC organization
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$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00448373/
← First In Freedom PAC organization
donor
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00540146/
← Mr. Southern Missourian In The House PAC organization
donor
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00563726/
← E-PAC organization
donor
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00570945/
Facts (34)
Data Freshness
Ageing Last update: 166d ago · Avg age: 982d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
✓ Verified Findings (33)
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✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Foreign-born population share: Approximately 8% (concentrated in food processing and construction workforce)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median age: 39.1
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership rate: Approximately 67%
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Cook Partisan Voting Index: R+16
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Bachelor's degree or higher: Approximately 27% (below North Carolina average of 33.9% and national average of 33.7%)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty rate: Approximately 13% (Rowan County approximately 15%, above state and national averages)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic population share: Approximately 10%
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Black population share: Approximately 15%
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: White non-Hispanic population share: Approximately 70%
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median household income: Approximately $61,400 (near North Carolina median of $65,070; below national median of $74,580)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: North Carolina Constitutional Amendment — Right to Hunt and Fish (2018) (2018) — passed, margin Statewide: 57% Yes — 43% No
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: North Carolina Constitutional Amendment — Photo Voter ID Requirement (2018) (2018) — passed, margin Statewide: 55% Yes — 45% No
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 71 Arts Entertainment and Recreation (motorsports) (share 0.05)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 44-45 Retail Trade (share 0.11)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 33 Manufacturing (share 0.13)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 61 Educational Services (share 0.08)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 Health Care and Social Assistance (share 0.17)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Top employer: Rowan Regional Medical Center (Novant Health) (2200 employees)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Top employer: Rowan-Salisbury Schools (3200 employees)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Top employer: Cabarrus County Schools (4200 employees)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Top employer: Charlotte Motor Speedway / Speedway Motorsports (1800 employees)
✓ verified Partially Corroborated [constituency_baseline] Top employer: Atrium Health Cabarrus / NorthEast Medical Center (5500 employees)
✓ verified Pending Review [constituency_baseline] District summary: North Carolina's 8th Congressional District — redrawn for the 2024 cycle — covers the eastern Charlotte metropolitan suburbs and the Piedmont interior, encompassing Cabarrus County (Concord, Kannapolis), Rowan County (Salisbury), and portions of surrounding counties. The district is home to Charlotte Motor Speedway and NASCAR's corporate headquarters in Concord, making motorsports one of its most distinctive economic anchors. The district is predominantly white, suburban to rural, with a significant working-class manufacturing base including food processing, textiles legacy operations, and automotive supply chain. Atrium Health operates the district's dominant hospital network. Cabarrus County has experienced rapid residential growth as a Charlotte exurb, while Rowan County retains a more traditional rural and small-city economic profile with above-average poverty rates. The district is strongly Republican — Cook PVI approximately R+16 — with Harris winning comfortably in 2024. The district's workforce is anchored by healthcare, education, motorsports, and light manufacturing, with a growing logistics sector along the I-85 corridor.
Added: 02 May 2026
✓ verified AI Inference Voted yea_unverified on H.R. 29 (Laken Riley Act (119th Congress)) on 2025-01-07: Harris voted for mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants accused of nonviolent crimes in one of his first House votes. NC-08 includes portions of Cabarrus and Rowan counties with significant Hispanic immigrant agricultural and manufacturing workforces; the poultry and food processing industries in the district rely substantially on immigrant labor. His yes aligned with his party and social conservative platform but created documented tension with a constituent economic sector dependent on the affected workforce.
Date: 2025-01-07 Added: 02 May 2026
✓ verified AI Inference Voted yea_unverified on H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act (119th Congress)) on 2025-07-03: Harris voted for the OBBBA, which CBO projected would cut $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP and add $3.4 trillion to the federal deficit. NC-08 includes Cabarrus and Rowan counties with documented rural hospital financial stress and Medicaid enrollment among working-class and fixed-income constituents; Rowan County's poverty rate exceeds the national average and Medicaid-dependent rural health infrastructure is economically fragile. His yes vote aligned with party but against the material healthcare interest of his lowest-income constituents.
Date: 2025-07-03 Added: 02 May 2026
✓ verified Primary Source [statement] Harris announced in February 2019 — following his son's testimony — that he was calling for a new election in NC-09 and withdrawing from the re-run, citing health concerns following a stroke. He stated publicly that he believed a new election was in the best interest of all voters in the 9th District.
✓ verified Primary Source [platform] Harris has campaigned on election integrity as a central platform commitment, stating in his 2024 campaign materials and public appearances that protecting the integrity of elections is among his highest legislative priorities.
✓ verified Primary Source [statement] Harris's son John Harris, an attorney, testified at the same State Board of Elections hearing that he sent his father a text message in August 2018 — before the general election — explicitly warning him that McCrae Dowless's ballot-collection activities appeared to be illegal and advising him to stop using Dowless. John Harris testified the text message was read aloud from his phone during the hearing.
✓ verified Primary Source [statement] During the North Carolina State Board of Elections evidentiary hearing in February 2019, Harris testified that he was unaware of any illegal absentee ballot activities by his operative McCrae Dowless and that he did not know Dowless was collecting and potentially fraudulently returning absentee ballots on behalf of his campaign.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Harris previously ran for Congress in 2018 (NC-09) and for U.S. Senate in 2014 and 2020 before winning the NC-08 seat in 2024. His fundraising infrastructure across these campaigns drew on consistent support from Southern Baptist Convention-aligned donors and conservative Christian activist networks concentrated in the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County area.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Harris's top career donor sectors include ideological/single-issue organizations reflecting his evangelical pastor background and social conservative positioning, finance/insurance/real estate consistent with Cabarrus County's growing Charlotte suburban economy, and real estate interests tied to the rapid residential development in the district.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Harris's 2024 campaign for NC-08 raised approximately $2.1 million, his first successful congressional election after his 2018 NC-09 victory was invalidated by the North Carolina State Board of Elections due to absentee ballot fraud. His donor base is heavily weighted toward conservative ideological donors, evangelical networks, and individual contributors from the Charlotte metro area and Cabarrus County.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Mark Harris filed filing with the SEC on 2010-10-27. Accession number: N/A.
All Connections (25)
legislative vote primary since 2025
Harris voted yea on H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) on 2025-07-03, which the CBO projected would cut $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP and add $3.4 trillion to the deficit. This vote was against the healthcare interests of his low-income constituents in Cabarrus and Rowan counties.
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00007880/
donor primary since 2026
$6,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (3 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00023028/
donor primary since 2026
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00028787/
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00030718/
donor primary since 2026
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (4 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00084491/
donor primary since 2026
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00110338/
← Farm Credit PAC organization
donor primary since 2026
$7,500 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00193631/
← House Conservatives Fund organization
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (3 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00326439/
donor primary since 2026
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00358663/
← Huckpac Operating Account organization
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00431809/
← Huck PAC organization
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00448373/
donor primary since 2026
$5,500 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (3 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00503680/
← First In Freedom PAC organization
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00540146/
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00563726/
← E-PAC organization
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00570945/
donor primary since 2024
$10,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00592089/
← American Revival PAC organization
donor primary since 2024
$10,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00639229/
donor primary since 2026
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00682617/
← Buckeye Liberty PAC organization
donor primary since 2026
$10,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00693796/
donor primary since 2024
$10,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00797670/
← America'S Mountain PAC organization
donor primary since 2026
$8,500 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2026 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00883413/
← Eye Of The Tiger PAC organization
donor primary since 2024
$10,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (2 contributions), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00467431/
← Raptor PAC organization
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00749481/
← House Freedom Fund company
donor primary since 2024
$5,000 to Mark Harris's principal committee in the 2024 cycle (1 contribution), FEC Schedule A line 11C. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00552851/
Sources (29)
2010-10-27 ↗ SEC EDGAR: SC 13D — Harris Mark Winston (2010-10-27) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2014-10-14 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Mark Harris (2014-10-14) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2015-10-07 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Mark Harris (2015-10-07) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2004-04-19 ↗ SEC EDGAR: 4 — HARRIS MARK A (2004-04-19) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2010-10-27 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Mark Harris (2010-10-27) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2020-03-04 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Mark Harris (2020-03-04) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2023-12-29 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Mark Harris (2023-12-29) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2022-01-07 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Mark Harris (2022-01-07) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Mark Harris — Court records (no results) court_document Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Mark Harris — FEC donations (no results) fec_record Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Mark Harris — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Mark Harris — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed 📜 Receipt
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— ↗ Claim: Harris announced in February 2019 — following his son's testimony — that … congress_handoff Processed 📜 Receipt
— ↗ Claim: Harris's son John Harris, an attorney, testified at the same State Board … congress_handoff Processed 📜 Receipt
— ↗ Claim: During the North Carolina State Board of Elections evidentiary hearing in… congress_handoff Processed 📜 Receipt
— ↗ Silence evidence: NASCAR and motorsports industry regulatory and tax treatment g… congress_handoff Processed 📜 Receipt
— ↗ Silence evidence: McCrae Dowless absentee ballot fraud conviction and its implic… congress_handoff Processed 📜 Receipt
— ↗ Donor mapping evidence: Harris previously ran for Congress in 2018 (NC-09) and f… congress_handoff Processed 📜 Receipt
— ↗ Donor mapping evidence: Harris's top career donor sectors include ideological/si… congress_handoff Processed 📜 Receipt
— ↗ Donor mapping evidence: Harris's 2024 campaign for NC-08 raised approximately $2… congress_handoff Processed 📜 Receipt
2026-04-23 UNVERIFIED SEARCH_ERROR: Mark Harris not found in fec claim_flag Processed 📜 Receipt
2010-10-27 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Mark Harris (2010-10-27) web_search Processed 📜 Receipt