GOP candidate's son shakes up North Carolina hearing with surprise testimony

The son of GOP congressional candidate Mark Harris testified before the North Carolina State Board of Elections, saying that he warned his father about the illegal tactics of a political operative that Harris had hired, casting doubt on Harris' insistence that he had no knowledge of fraudulent election activity in last year's election. In a surprise appearance that culminated with an emotional plea to fix the political process, John Harris, an assistant U.S. attorney in NC, testified that he told his father he had become concerned about the practices of the operative, McCrae Dowless, after studying the 2016 congressional primary in the same 9th District.