Roy Cooper

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?

What am I going to say to the people of North Carolina who are depending on their health insurance that they just won?

We have to make sure that we speak to the people that we represent, that we listen to them, and that we actually roll up our sleeves and get things done.

And I think I can take that experience that I've had in North Carolina to Washington and look forward to getting a chance to do that.

People in North Carolina have too much month at the end of the money.

They know that prices are up.

Look, my opponent, Michael Watley, has been a big oil lobbyist.

He's been a Washington, D.C.

insider for years.