Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“Democrats acknowledge Roy Cooper as their strongest potential candidate to run for Senate in North Carolina in 2026,” NOTUS reports.
“Yet with the former governor undecided and the odds of him launching a bid still being around fifty-fifty, some Democrats are at least starting to reckon with the question: If not Cooper, then who?”
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