After years of military service, and long before running for Congress, Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., and his wife started a family and focused on growing their business in North Carolina. The couple had “nothing to do with politics until Afghanistan came crashing down” in 2021.
Watching Afghanistan fall so quickly back into the hands of the terrorists that Harrigan had fought to defeat during his military service was one of the reasons Harrigan says he decided to run for Congress.
“Our politicians failed us,” he said. “Our military leaders failed us. And at some point, you just step back and you realize, if we’re structurally so weak that we would lose Afghanistan the way that we lost it, we’re just asking our adversaries to attack us.”
“I really do believe that…
