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 ...

Young Americans, Especially Men, Fuel GOP GainsJonathan DraegerEach year, Pew Research conducts a party affiliation poll to determine where the country is moving politically.

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

The Trump-backed Senate hopeful was all about congressional oversight—when it meant stopping Obama's green power plans.

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

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

Gov. Brian Kemp and President Donald Trump's fragile truce over Georgia’s Senate race is unraveling as Kemp pushes for a ...

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

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 ...