Roy Cooper

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310 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 19 Aug

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

President Trump finally came into North Carolina after he got elected, and he appointed my opponent, Michael Whatley, as the federal FEMA recovery czar for Western North Carolina.

And guess what's happened?

a trickle of money from the federal government, not nearly enough to even reimburse these small counties that can't afford the money that they've already put out to try and clear debris and build back roads.

There's bipartisan opposition to Michael Watley's position here.

And they've sent in a letter demanding his resignation because now Washington's turning its back.

During the campaign, it was important to them to talk about how horrible everything was going and how much better that they can do.

And now they're talking about eliminating FEMA, maybe throwing some money to the states and saying, good luck to you.

Not very much money because it's clear that this is going to be billions of dollars in order for Western North Carolina recovery.

And they feel like

The back has been turned on them by this administration.

And my opponent, Michael Whatley, is leading the way.

He's supposed to be the federal recoveries are people in western North Carolina need the help desperately.

Yeah, you gotta stand up for what you believe.

But at the same time, you've got to recognize that you represent everybody, even people who didn't vote for you, even people who are very much against you and say horrible things about you.

You represent everybody.

And it's important to have people who lead with conviction, who want to stand up for what they believe is right, but also is willing to put themselves in the other person's shoes and consider what they are thinking about and trying to achieve consensus.

That's what I tried to do as governor, as attorney general, even when I served as a

state legislator, when I was the Senate Democratic majority leader, when the state house was Republican, we had to find a way to move forward.

And I think that people want us to be civil.

I think they want us to debate policy issues.

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