This according to PPP-D.
Cooper 48
Whatley 44
The Democrat polling firm also suggests Whatley has a path to victory: “PPP’s newest North Carolina poll finds that Roy Cooper continues to lead Michael Whatley, 48-44, but that Whatley does have a path to victory.
Cooper’s lead is driven in part by a significant name recognition advantage. 92% of voters are familiar with him, compared to 69% who are familiar with Whatley.
Because of that dynamic Democrats are almost completely lined up behind Cooper, while a lot of Republican voters remain undecided.
That gives Whatley much more room for growth. Voters who remain on the fence supported Donald Trump by a 72 point margin in 2024. If they all voted for the same party for Senate in 2026 that they did for President in 2024, Whatley would win 51-49”
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
31 responses to “Cooper up only 4 in NC Senate race”
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So this race ain’t over?
Rs now surpass ds in nc
don’t forget coopers poor response to the nc flooding.
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https://x.com/zriboua/status/2076638503039852687
major development in Iran.
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Hormuzzle is no more. It is now the Strait of America and we get 20% of the shipping as a fee.
I hear the freepassers crying.
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Great stuff from Ben Domench yesterday…”Don’t Underestimate the Level of Boomer-Resentment from Democrats Under 45″.
Nailed it. Read the comments as well. I see it all around.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/07/12/ben_domenech_do_not_underestimate_the_level_of_boomer-resentment_among_voters_under_45.html
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Strait of America. I wish. Trump’s problem is that he called off the dogs two months ago and let Iran off the hook all in the naive notion that Iran was serious about a deal. He got played. Unfortunately, Tina, the strait isn’t open just because we say it is. Doesn’t work that way. All Iran has had to do is lob a few missiles or drones at a handful of commercial ships and the shipping shuts itself down. That’s what has happened and that is what is happening now. Nothing has changed……and for the life of me I don’t know why in the world our blockade of Iranian ports is still lifted. We threw away that leverage for absolutely nothing. Nope, the time to make hay was at the beginning and we called it off.
At least from the reports, we have now started to go after the leadership again. It took countless broken promises and being lied to for Trump to get it through his head that the new leaders weren’t any different than the leaders we took out at the beginning of the war. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss as the song goes.
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So far as I can recall, this is the first time I have seen this in a poll…utter stupidity given the biological reality, and statistical stupidity…but here it is…Zogby
2028 GE: Harris vs Vance crosstabs by Zogby Analytics
🟦 Kamala Harris: 48%
🟥 JD Vance: 43%
🔴 Male: Vance +3
🔵 Female: Harris +11
🔵 Non-binary: Harris +37
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I hear the freepassers crying.
Those are just the voices in your head, Tina.
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That was a surprising poll for NC from a Democrat pollster. Also, nice analysis DW of that poll.
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Whatley is a good candidate
cooper has baggage from his poor response to the nc floods in 2024
Rs now lead in party registration
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Zzzz…’
Trump didn’t get played, that is Dem talking points.
He is trying to get the best deal possible. Maybe it won’t work out.
I give him an A+ for trying.
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rump to get it through his head that the new leaders weren’t any different than the leaders we took out at the beginning of the war.”
Trump knows that.
This is not about “new leaders”.
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Maybe polls showing Whatley close will make Dems spend more money there.
Of course, it will also lead Rs to spend more money there too.
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Vance really has to work on the non-binary vote.
And if Kamala is only down 3 with men we might as well usher in the golden age of Marxism.
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I think Rubio would be a better GE candidate than Vance.
Sue me.
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France vs. Spain tomorrow.
Trump wants to cut economic ties with Spain, so we don’t want them to win.
Allez les bleus!
England vs. Argentina
FIFA did everything the could to topple the Brits. Made them play at 7500 ft with 3 days adaptation. An Iranian referee for a playoff game with a host country. A very iffy penalty call against England. A very iffy call on a disallowed goal. And finally, made England play with 10 players for most of the second half with 80,000 hostile crowd and the altitude.
So I am going to root for England. Sorry, hermanos.
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If you weren’t born in the US but you are old enough to be a boomer can you still be a boomer?
I defer to Tina.
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Largely a bunch of deadenders
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Allow me to explain in six words: Cornyn Murkowski Tillis McConnell Collins Curtis Narrow indeed. Razor thin, more like it.
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WA-03 POLL By Emerson for @nwprogressive (Dem)
August top 2 primary
🟥 John Braun: 26%
🟦 Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: 25%
🟦 Brent Hennrich: 11%
🟥 John Roco: 5%
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November (h2h)
🟥 John Braun: 45%
🟦 Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (inc): 44%
Emerson (A) | 7/8-10 | ±4.4%
https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/07/wa-03-is-still-washingtons-tossup-district-marie-gluesenkamp-perez-and-john-braun-are-tied-ahead-of-2026-top-two-election.html
But if you notice the survey, the first two questions were about Trump performance, a blatant attempt at putting their thumb on the scale for Perez and they still couldn’t get her into the lead.
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Cornyn Murkowski Tillis McConnell Collins Curtis”
Every one of them more of a Republican and more of a conservative than Trump.
Must suck to be Tina.
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WA-03 is on the side of flipping to the GOP on the HHR forecast page. Will be interesting to see if polls start to increase as summer continues
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Trump will deliver a Thursday night speech, spreading more lies about the 2020 elections, because his pathetic, sore-losing ass can’t accept that Joe Biden beat him like a drum.
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Paul sounds worried.
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Joe Biden beat him like a drum.”
Zzzzz….
Millions and millions of VBM ballots with no chain of custody, illegal “COVID” changes in state voting laws, unsupervised ballot boxes, rampant vote harvesting, suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and “51 intelligence lying experts”, you name it, and even then Biden “won” by 41k votes in 3 states after the Dems determined how many votes they needed in each one.
“Like a drum” indeed.
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But in the end, stealing the election came back to bite the Dems.
Trump has a lot more power now and is much more consequential than he would have been in his second term.
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Oh, did I mention “inciting a coup”, “fraud in valuating assets”, “stealing classified documents”, “trying to overthrow the election”?
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@bencasselman
U.S. consumer prices fell 0.4 percent in June and were up 3.5 percent from a year earlier. Core prices, excluding volatile food and fuel, were flat on a month-over-month basis and up 2.6 percent from last June. Data: https://bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm Full coverage: https://nytimes.com/live/2026/07/14/business/cpi-inflation-warsh-fed
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.S. consumer prices fell 0.4 percent in June and were up 3.5 percent from a year earlier. Core prices, excluding volatile food and fuel, were flat on a month-over-month basis and up 2.6 percent from last June. Data
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This is the first drop in cpi since 2020. But the freepassers said inflation is higher now than under Demented.
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Arrest these ukranian criminals
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/03/10/how_ukraine_conspired_with_dems_against_trump_to_prevent_the_kind_of_war_happening_now_under_biden_820873.html
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