Roy Cooper on Why North Carolina Could Become Trump's Biggest Problem
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What is the current political landscape in North Carolina regarding Trump?
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This is Donald Trump's nightmare. He is collapsing in the state of North Carolina. His current approval in North Carolina, net negative 22, and it continues to plummet. And with his plummeting approval, Donald Trump may cost the MAGA Republicans control over the United States Senate. When you zoom in on the polling data for the Senate race, now an open seat in North Carolina, the Democratic candidate, former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, is pulling ahead by massive amounts over the MAGA Republican candidate, Michael Whatley. Whatley used to be the head of the RNC. He is Mr. MAGA, Mr. Donald Trump bootlicker. All of the polls have Roy Cooper up big, up anywhere from 11, 12. Some polls have him up even more right now.
And the Trump regime is absolutely panicking. Donald Trump had previously made posts that Whatley, based on all of his help of Donald Trump and MAGA, was going to bring down health care prices, 800% prescription drug prices. Everything was going to be solved. But Watley, the Trump bootlicker, has only worked with Donald Trump to cause more pain in the great state of North Carolina. Now, Watley's been running on one thing. Basically, I'm attached to the hip with Donald Trump and North Carolina. You need somebody who just rubber stamps what Donald Trump does. North Carolina If you want the Trump puppet, vote Watley. That's what Watley's out there saying. Here's what Watley literally said that. I think he was just leaving the spring gala and all of the galas over at Mar-a-Lago where he and all the right-wing oligarchs mock all of the Americans who are suffering right now.
Here's what he said on state regime media. Here, let's play this clip.
Right now, what North Carolina wants is an ally for President Trump, and they also want a strong conservative voice in the Senate. I am going to be that guy. Right now, President Trump is really, truly setting the direction that North Carolina wants to go in. Roy Cooper is going to be a very flawed candidate. He's a left-wing candidate. He is right out of the mold of California and New York.
Definitely going to be an expensive, hotly contested race. I just have two thoughts.
And by the way, Whatley doesn't even know anything about the state that he's running in, or he doesn't know anything. Just watch how embarrassing this was as Carolina forward says, this is worse than someone asked when Trump was asked to name his favorite Bible verse. Here, let's play this clip.
I saw you post about the Carolina hurricanes.
How is Roy Cooper positioned in the Senate race?
Yeah, I think we like them all. Don't have a favorite player? Look, I think that that's a team that's loaded. They're playing offense really well. I'm excited about that. And what about the graphic that was created yesterday? How'd that come about? That's just a graphic that we created.
You use AI for the graphic. Was that intentional? And can you talk about that as far as like the canes and... you know, using their name or whatever, if there's any kind of issue there.
Well, look, I want to see the Carolina Hurricanes win. I think it's absolutely great for the state. And I think it's fun that they're in the Stanley Cup finals. And, you know, we did use AI. Thanks, guys. No, Jacob Slavin. I think that this is a guy who has an outspoken faith in God. He works hard every single day and kind of represents the best of the sport. Did anyone tell you to say Jacob Slavin? No, we're good. Okay.
I want to bring in now the former Democratic governor of the great state of North Carolina, who is running for that Senate seat in North Carolina, a state now where Donald Trump's approval is net negative 22. Let's bring in the interview I just did with former North Carolina Democratic governor and now the candidate for that Senate seat, Roy Cooper, former governor of North Carolina.
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