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(156,918 posts) Tue Jul 1, 2025, 08:04 AM Jul 1

Scoop: Roy Cooper leans toward N.C. Senate bid, potential Trump showdown

Source: Axios

12 hours ago

North Carolina Democrats are getting closer to the gift they've have been asking for all year, with former Gov. Roy Cooper (D) leaning toward a Senate run in the state President Trump has won three times.

Why it matters: The field is essentially frozen until Cooper and Lara Trump, the president's daughter-in-law, decide if they want to be their party's nominees.

In their own way, they both have the "right of first refusal" in their party's primaries.

What they're saying: "Governor Cooper continues to strongly consider a run for the Senate and will decide in the coming weeks," said Morgan Jackson, Cooper's top political adviser told Axios.

"I'm considering it," Lara Trump told Fox News Radio on Monday.
"This is all kind of fresh within the past 24 hours for me," she said.
"North Carolina is my home state. It's where I was born and raised. It made me the person I am today."

Driving the news: In a surprise Sunday move, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) announced in the middle of Senate negotiations over the one "big, beautiful bill," that he would not be seeking a third term.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/north-carolina-senate-roy-cooper-lara-trump

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Scoop: Roy Cooper leans toward N.C. Senate bid, potential Trump showdown (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jul 1 OP

So many Marylanders have retired there wolfie001 Jul 1 #1

Wiley Nickel, a former congressman has already announced. everyonematters Jul 1 #2

If Cooper says timms139 Jul 1 #3

Roy Cooper would be great here. Lara Trumpleskin would be a disaster. enigmania Jul 1 #4

Cooper is a rare bright spot fujiyamasan Jul 2 #5

wolfie001

(5,737 posts)

1. So many Marylanders have retired there

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jul 1, 2025, 08:09 AM

Jul 1

I'm sure most voted for the orange piece of shit. Maybe now they can recognize the disaster he's unleashed and vote Democratic.

everyonematters

(3,872 posts)

2. Wiley Nickel, a former congressman has already announced.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jul 1, 2025, 08:25 AM

Jul 1

I like Wiley, but if Cooper runs, I think he will win.

timms139

(336 posts)

3. If Cooper says

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jul 1, 2025, 05:01 PM

Jul 1

he is going to run you can bet that their own polling shows that he can when in the general .

enigmania

(351 posts)

4. Roy Cooper would be great here. Lara Trumpleskin would be a disaster.

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Tue Jul 1, 2025, 06:26 PM

Jul 1

fujiyamasan

(491 posts)

5. Cooper is a rare bright spot

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 2, 2025, 02:56 AM

Jul 2

In a state which has been disappointing at the state level for years. There was a lot of hope after Obama won it in ‘08, but every election since, it has gone red. That was also the same year a dem last won a senate seat in NC.

I hope Cooper can change that.

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