Roy Cooper

You know, people want government to work, Ben.

A lot of people don't pay attention to the politics of it.

They just want their kids to go to good schools.

They want health care.

They want a solid retirement.

They want a good paying job.

They want safe communities.

And more than ever,

We need leaders who are ready to step up and do the job.

I was a Democratic governor in North Carolina for eight years.

I was limited to two terms.

I had a Republican legislature for every single moment that I was governor.

and yeah i vetoed a record number of bills because they passed a lot of bad laws but at the same time i found ways to work with them i found ways to use my executive authority to help people we got medicaid expanded most southern states couldn't do that but we did it 725 000 people now have more health insurance

I got a Republican legislature to pass a law to get us to carbon zero in our power sector by 2050.

We were able to get all 99 of our hospitals to sign up for the largest medical debt relief program in the country.

People who have civil judgments against them because they didn't have health care insurance.

And you can't get a credit card.

You can't buy a house.

Sometimes you can't even qualify for rent.

So far, we've wiped away six and a half billion dollars in medical debt for more than two and a half million North Carolinians.