Raleigh’s Clay Aiken, host of a new politics podcast, talks monuments, singing and Trump

Never say never, but running for political office — again — is not at the top of Clay Aiken’s to-do list. And least not anytime soon.

That’s even though Aiken, who first gained fame as a runner-up on “American Idol” and then went on to star on Broadway and run for the U.S. House in NC’s 2nd Congressional District in 2014, has a new project that’s pretty politics-centric.

Aiken is the host of a new Politicon podcast called “How the Heck Are We Gonna Get Along,” a sort of roundtable debate of political and current events topics.