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Swing state's Senate race no longer a toss-up — with Dem Roy Cooper in the lead
North Carolina Is Not a Mystery. It Is a Loyalty Test.The Power Is The PointTop forecasters now favor Roy Cooper in North Carolina’s Senate race after polling showed Michael Whatley stuck below 40 percent while Cooper hovered around 50 percent. The article presents this as a race shaped by name recognition and the national environment. That is true as far as it goes. It is also too polite.The real institutional power in this story sits with Donald Trump and the Republican apparatus that keeps choosing him over political survival. Whatley is not an isolated candidate drifting in bad weather…
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