Roy Cooper

Campaigns on making life more affordable, citing rising grocery prices, surprise medical billing, and expensive child care as the struggles driving his Senate run.

“Rising grocery prices, surprise billing from a doctor's visit, expensive child care. These struggles and the people affected by them are why I'm running for the US Senate.”

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Wants to rebuild FEMA so the federal government has an agency ready to respond when disasters like Hurricane Helene strike.

“recreate FEMA, because clearly, it has been almost destroyed. It's critical for us to have a federal agency ready to step up to help ... when these disasters strike.”

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Supports expanding health care coverage and reducing medical debt, highlighting his record of a bipartisan Medicaid expansion covering more than 650,000 North Carolinians and a hospital incentive plan to relieve over $4 billion in medical debt.

“He succeeded in getting a bipartisan agreement to expand Medicaid, which in early 2025 has already brought health care to more than 650,000 North Carolinians. He enacted a plan to incentivize hospitals to relieve more than $4 billion of existing medical debt for 2 million eligible North Carolinians and prevent new debt.”

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Campaigned on reversing the tariffs, arguing that constitutional authority on trade and tariffs rests with Congress and pledging to vote to roll them back.

“The United States Supreme Court was clear that the constitutional authority on trade and tariffs rest[s] with Congress. I will vote to roll back the tariffs.”

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Campaigns on his record of creating better-paying jobs and building an economy that values working people, citing 640,000 new jobs created while working with the Republican-led General Assembly.

“I worked with the Republican General Assembly to help create 640,000 new, better-paying jobs in our state. I worked with them to help provide paid parental leave for state employees. I think it's critical for a U.S. senator to put the people before politics.”

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Supports public education and raising teacher pay, citing a deep commitment to public education rooted in his mother's career as a public-school teacher.

“His mother was a public-school teacher, which helped cement his deep commitment to public education. ... he worked to raise teacher pay and strengthen law enforcement.”

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