Broadway & American Idol Alum Clay Aiken Runner-Up Again, Loses Bid for Congress
Broadway alum Clay Aiken, who was running for Congress in North Carolina, has been defeated by incumbent Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers. Elmers won 58.85% of the vote in the state’s 2nd District; Aiken picked up 41.5%. Best known for being the 2003 American Idol runner-up to Ruben Studdard, Aiken went on to release five albums and star as Sir Robin in Spamalot on the Great White Way in 2009, winning a Broadwa…