Roy Cooper led Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley by six points in the first major poll of the 2026 North Carolina Senate race. The Emerson College poll, obtained by Politico, ...

Democrats still in the dumps over last year’s elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, where former Gov. Roy Cooper jumped into the race for that state’s newly open seat with ...

Sen. Elizabeth Dole, a Republican who represented North Carolina in Congress, also never ran for public office before being elected in 2002. Whatley served as her chief of staff for one of her six ...