Roy vs DC
It’s Down Home Roy versus D.C. politicians.
Roy Cooper’s announcement video is how Opie Taylor of Mayberry would look and sound if he grew up to run for Senator.
Cooper begins nostalgically: “It wasn’t always this hard, because being in the middle class meant something. You could afford a home. Your kids went to good schools. Your job paid enough to cover the basics, and most summers you could get away for a few days. For the most part, life was pretty good.”
But, “Today, for too many Americans, the middle class feels like a distant dream. Meanwhile, the biggest corporations and the richest Americans have grabbed unimaginable wealth at your expense. I’m running for Senate because it’s time for that to change.”
Two words were noticeably missing from his announcement: “Donald Trump.”
Instead, Cooper targeted “politicians in D.C.” and “Republicans in Washington.”
He doesn’t mention Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” but takes dead aim at it:
“Politicians in DC are running up our debt, ripping away our healthcare, disrespecting our veterans, cutting help for the poor and even putting Medicare and Social Security at risk, just to give tax breaks to billionaires.”
He takes a bipartisan tone, saying that as Governor he worked with Republicans in Raleigh “to raise teacher pay, recruit thousands of better-paying jobs and expand Medicaid to more than 650,000 working North Carolinians.”
Cooper implicitly contrasts himself with Trump’s choice – actually, second choice – for Senate, Michael Whatley, Republican National Committee chair and consummate DC political insider: “I never really wanted to go to Washington. I just wanted to serve the people of North Carolina, right here where I’ve lived all my life.”
Unlike Cooper, Trump and Whatley won’t hold back on name-calling. Predictably, Trump will have a nasty name for Cooper. One Republican group called him “Radical Roy.”
Down-Home Roy will face several hundred million dollars of “Radical Roy” attack ads.
If he prevails, he’ll give North Carolina not only new policies in Washington, but a new politics here at home.
That would be a great gift to his state.
Roy vs DC
It’s Down Home Roy versus D.C. politicians.
Roy Cooper’s announcement video is how Opie Taylor of Mayberry would look and sound if he grew up to run for Senator.
Cooper begins nostalgically: “It wasn’t always this hard, because being in the middle class meant something. You could afford a home. Your kids went to good schools. Your job paid enough to cover the basics, and most summers you could get away for a few days. For the most part, life was pretty good.”
But, “Today, for too many Americans, the middle class feels like a distant dream. Meanwhile, the biggest corporations and the richest Americans have grabbed unimaginable wealth at your expense. I’m running for Senate because it’s time for that to change.”
Two words were noticeably missing from his announcement: “Donald Trump.”
Instead, Cooper targeted “politicians in D.C.” and “Republicans in Washington.”
He doesn’t mention Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” but takes dead aim at it:
“Politicians in DC are running up our debt, ripping away our healthcare, disrespecting our veterans, cutting help for the poor and even putting Medicare and Social Security at risk, just to give tax breaks to billionaires.”
He takes a bipartisan tone, saying that as Governor he worked with Republicans in Raleigh “to raise teacher pay, recruit thousands of better-paying jobs and expand Medicaid to more than 650,000 working North Carolinians.”
Cooper implicitly contrasts himself with Trump’s choice – actually, second choice – for Senate, Michael Whatley, Republican National Committee chair and consummate DC political insider: “I never really wanted to go to Washington. I just wanted to serve the people of North Carolina, right here where I’ve lived all my life.”
Unlike Cooper, Trump and Whatley won’t hold back on name-calling. Predictably, Trump will have a nasty name for Cooper. One Republican group called him “Radical Roy.”
Down-Home Roy will face several hundred million dollars of “Radical Roy” attack ads.
If he prevails, he’ll give North Carolina not only new policies in Washington, but a new politics here at home.
That would be a great gift to his state.