Posted on 08/01/2025 5:52:37 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
The first Emerson College Polling survey of the 2026 U.S. Senate race in North Carolina finds former Governor Roy Cooper starting the race with a six-point edge on Republican National Committee Chair, Michael Whatley, 47% to 41%, with 12% undecided.
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I figured it would be worse, actually.
I can’t remember ever seeing an Emerson College Poll that favored a Republican. Yet the Democrats win the local/state elections somehow in N.C.
That is a bad number for Cooper, very bad.
Too many Yankee transplants in the tar heel state.
I wanted Lara Trump for the seat in North Carolina.
Interesting. What do you think it should be?
We’ll lose it. The good news for Whatley is that he won’t go down and take others with him as republicans are prone to do with their stupid mistakes.
Lara running would have been too big of a gamble. A loss would damage the Trump name as losers.
The race will be high profile and expensive. The rats don’t have that much to get excited about.
I would have thought him up 10 or more. Mr Chairman is in good shape for 15 months prior to the election.
And foreigners
The Republicans don’t have a candidate yet. I wouldn’t put any stock in this.
Not really, but there's also a poll out from something called Victory Insights which, as long as you count "leaners" and engage some friendly rounding, shows a suprising 44%-44% tie. All anyone can say at this point is: it will be close (barring another Mark Robinson-type debacle) as it always is in North Carolina statewide elections these days.
https://irp.cdn-website.com/07e08705/files/uploaded/PollSummary_NC-US-Senate_07-31-2025.pdf
Cooper was why Lara didn’t run. Her chances of beating him were not good. Again the women vote is the problem.
The Republicans have been winning national races for a while (President/Senate).
The streak is coming to an end with Cooper's victory in 2026.
“Yet the Democrats win the local/state elections somehow in N.C.”
Carpetbaggers from up North.
Roy Cooper is a rarity for the Democratic Party. He's a throwback to what the Democrats used to be. Reminds you of Bill Clinton except that Roy is not a sleazebag.
If the party decides to run more candidates like Roy Cooper, they'll seize control of Congress by now. But the Progressives in the party are not in favor of that. They want to double down on the 20% stuff.
“I figured it would be worse, actually.”
ditto ...
Seriously. I’m only an observer of NC politics from afar, but I take great heart that he isn’t up +15 or 20, so beloved is he, according to the press
You must remember that North Carolina elections are generally pretty tight. Democratic political machines in the larger cities are likely engaging in ballot fraud. The Department of Justice must focus on this issue in both November of this year and in 2026. If cheating can be stopped or at least curtailed, there would be fewer Democratic victories in purple states.
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