There was a scandal involving the construction of toll roads so the idiot Roy Cooper managed to squeak by on this issue. I doubt he will be re-elected. A lot of people here really detest him.
The leftists who control the NBA and NCAA were going to boycott North Carolina and support the freak show of having transvestite "men" use women's bathrooms, and that threat to NC's economy is what got Democrat Cooper elected. That bill was repealed by the frightened Republican legislature a few months after Cooper took office.
There's a good chance he will be re-elected easily in November, or at least there's no evidence to the contrary right now.
Similar thing happened here in KY — except it was toll bridges here. Unforced error by an otherwise good GOP guv and now we’re stuck with a COVID Karen demonrat guv who — along with our equally pathetic demonrat mayor — are letting the communists destroy downtown Louisville...