Democrats called former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper‘s entrance into the Senate race to succeed retiring Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) a “game-changer” in their hopes to flip the upper chamber from Republican control.
Party members have begun to clear the field for Cooper, a popular figure in the Tarheel State, in the Democratic primary ahead of a likely face-off with Michael Whatley, the Donald Trump-backed front-runner in the GOP primary.
But Democrats are already claiming they have the upper hand, as Cooper won’t have to face Tillis, who has a track record of winning statewide elections, and is running in a purple-ish battleground state. Cooper also won his gubernatorial races in 2016 and 2020, even as Trump won at the presidential level.
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