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Democrat Roy Cooper wins a North Carolina Senate seat
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Cooper → win → country
Democrat Roy Cooper has won North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat, according to a race call from the Associated Press, providing the party with a key Senate flip.
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Cooper → win → flip
The former governor becomes the first Democrat elected to the Senate from North Carolina since 2008.
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governor → become → 2008
Cooper defeated Michael Whatley, a former Republican National Committee chair who President Trump picked to replace retiring GOP Sen. Thom Tillis.
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Trump → defeat → Tillis
Cooper and national Democratic Party groups significantly outspent Whatley and Republicans.
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Cooper → outspent → Whatley
A few weeks before the election, national GOP organizations pulled TV ads from North Carolina and redirected their money to other battlegrounds like Kansas.
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organizations → pull → Kansas
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Cooper, who served as governor from 2017 to 2024, focused his campaign on affordability issues.
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who → load → issues
Each campaign stop he made across the state was promoted as the "Make Stuff Cost Less" tour.
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Stuff → make → tour
Meanwhile, Whatley's campaign centered around crime and immigration issues.
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campaign → center → issues
He criticized Cooper over a COVID-era legal settlement that released inmates from state prisons to address overcrowding during the pandemic.
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that → criticize → pandemic
But polls indicated that the economy — not crime — was the top concern for North Carolina voters this year.
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economy → indicate → voters
The race was Whatley's first run for elected office, and Cooper's campaign painted him as a lobbyist for Big Oil who would become a rubber stamp for Trump in the Senate.
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who → elect → Senate
Patrick Sebastian, a Republican strategist who did not work on the Whatley campaign, said his party's candidate should have made the economy a bigger focus.
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economy → work → campaign
"Really it's the economy is Issue A and then Issue B is probably government corruption, that people are following the most," Sebastian said.
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Sebastian → follow → most
"So when we're not talking about those issues, it's going to be hard to connect with people that go to Walmart for their groceries and can only get 80% of what they used to buy because the prices have gone up."
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prices → talk → what
The North Carolina Senate race was initially expected to be one of the most competitive — and most expensive — in the country, but Whatley never led in polling, and Cooper's lead widened over the course of the race.
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lead → expect → race
Even as pro-Whatley TV ads largely disappeared in October, Trump and Vice President Vance came to North Carolina for multiple rallies in the final weeks of the campaign.
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Trump → disappear → campaign
Sebastian says those visits likely helped improve base turnout for GOP voters, but weren't enough to save Whatley's campaign.
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visits → say → campaign
Tillis announced in 2025 he wouldn't seek reelection, after Trump threatened him with a primary challenger for failing to support the president's tax cut and spending bill.
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Trump → announce → cut
Rather than campaign for Whatley, he's been promoting his new book criticizing fellow Republicans.
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he → campaign → Republicans
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