Former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles (D) will not run for governor of North Carolina, Politico reports.
Recent polls found that Bowles, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate twice, was the Democrat who ran most competitively against Pat McCrory (R).
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