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County. people know who the shady characters are. what is amazing here is that my opponent mark harris went out and hired this known criminal, dallas, who was under investigation for absentee ballot fraud to run his absentee ballot program amidst all these allegations. >> let's play -- to your point about how mr. dallas was a known criminal, here is robert pittinger who lost to harris in the primary since he heard about irregularities. take a listen to this. >> have you ever heard of voter irregularities in the district. is this news is now >> it's been out there. we were fully aware of it. so...

Dowless. if those allegations are true, it is all illegal. so joining me now to discuss is dan mccready, the democratic candidate for congress in north carolina's 9th district who tonight took back his concession in the race. good evening. it's so good to have you on. thank you very much. >> great ton with you. thanks for having me. >> i just want to read a key part from your statement where you write, you said, "i didn't serve overseas in the marines to come home to north carolina and watch a criminal bankrolled by my opponent take away people's very right to vote." do you think this election...

Like bottom line, what happened here is that this is a professional operator. there is a specific operator who works in bladen county and maybe a couple of other counties in your congressional district who has made it his life's work, who has made it his work for a number of election cycles now that for hire he'll stuff the ballot box. he'll rig the absentee ballot system and make sure that your opponents' ballots never make into it the ballot box, and to make sure that a lot of suspiciously high number of ballots for you do get in there. it seems like this was sort of voter fraud for hire. th...

He's a criminal. he's a felon. and i think it is amazing that my opponent mark harris went out and hired a convicted felon who was under investigation for absentee ballot fraud to do his absentee ballot program. and apparently he got what he paid for because mark harris didn't just hire this fella. he actually recommended his services to others. >> in terms of mr. harris, you -- before today, before you announced you were rescinding your concession, you had not been making public comments about the results of the race. mr. harris has not made any comments either including the pointed allegatio...

Comes down to turnout? >> when you have $8 million, you can do an early vote program. you can do an absentee ballot program. the 11 republicans couldn't do any of that. >> i know how you're going to answer this next question. is there a real winner here? both sides say they won. john ossoff and who is right? either of them? none of them? >> i personally think what is going to happen in june is there is much more down side for the democrats because they're so invested in this race now. democrats are dying to show their intuseiasm for resisting trump and participating in elections. they certainl...