Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper led Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley by 6 percentage points in ...

Democrats still in the dumps over last year's elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina in the 2026 U.S. Senate race.

Expected to be the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history, polling released Friday gave former North Carolina Democratic ...

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 ...

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

Roy Cooper should be an overwhelming favorite to be North Carolina’s next U.S. senator, but Michael Whatley is strong where it matters most.

Last week, House Republicans (and one Democrat) overrode Gov. Josh Stein's veto of House Bill 805, a law introducing many ...

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 ...