This week, North Carolina’s top Senate candidates kicked off their campaigns without neck ties. It wasn’t accidental.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper holds a six-point advantage over Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley in the 2026 U.S. Senate race, according to the first ...

Favorability ratings are 51% for Cooper and 17% for Whatley, the Emerson poll says. In context, Whatley only had 16% ...

Democrats still in the dumps over last year’s elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, where former Gov.

President Donald Trump has officially given his endorsement to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley for ...

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, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley has formally kicked off his bid for the hotly-contested ...

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has an early lead over Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley in the ...

Former two-term Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leading his much lesser-known likely Republican opponent by just six points ...

A new poll of the North Carolina Senate election points to a close race between former Governor Roy Cooper and Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley in what is likely to be one of the ...