Roy Cooper

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Governor Cooper Discusses Critical North Carolina Senate Race · 3 Dec 2025 podcast

And in fact, one of the great things I've gotten to do since I've left the governor's office is go to the grocery store actually, and people recognize me and come up and talk with me and have told me how difficult it is for them.

Too much month at the end of the money, this administration, this Congress is broken.

when you're making life unaffordable for people, when you're taking away their health care, that's not good for them.

And we need to change.

We need people who will go to Washington with practical experience, who can break this majority that we have.

We must break the majority in the US Senate.

and US House in order to bring some balance back to Washington and try to make this Washington work for everyday people instead of the billionaires that's been going on now for too long.

Yeah.

When you have a Republican legislature for eight years that I served as governor,

you have to find ways to achieve consensus and move forward.

They had been so adamant in their opposition to Medicaid expansion.

What we did is put together a coalition of people so that at the end of the day, their own constituents, including law enforcement and Republican county commissioners and

Members of the Chambers of Commerce were telling them that we need Medicaid expansion in North Carolina.

And now we have 675,000 people who have health insurance.

I'll never forget handing Penny her health insurance card with Medicaid expansion, her getting the first one.

tears in her eyes and admittedly tears in mine.

So many people I talked to that day had never had health insurance before.

So you can get things done when you try to work together.

Right now, though, Washington's trying to take it all away.

And it's one of the reasons that the Republican incumbent in the Senate, Tom Tillis, stood up on the floor of the Senate and told people, how can I vote for this big, beautiful bill?

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