In North Carolina, every county shifted more left in this year’s U.S. House and Senate races compared to 2024, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of preliminary voting data. Democrat Roy Cooper, who served as the Governor of North Carolina from 2017 to 2025, won 59% of the vote in the Senate race against Republican…
Roy Cooper won North Carolina’s Senate seat before the polls even opened on Election Day. The number of early votes cast for the Democratic nominee totaled more than 1,728,000, besting the total number of votes cast overall for his Republican opponent, Michael Whatley, by roughly 85,000 votes, according to the North…