The former governor is six points up in what will be one of the most competitive Senate races in the country next year.

Strategists say Cooper’s entry makes North Carolina a more difficult seat for the GOP to hold, though a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate race in the traditionally competitive state since 2008.

— Sarah McBride says voters feel like Democrats have “been assholes to them,” she tells Playbook’s Dasha Burns. … And new polling from Third Way outlines Dems’ most effective lines of attack on the ...

Michael Whatley, the chair of the Republican National Committee, officially joined the race to fill North Carolina's open ...