Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has an early lead over Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley in the ...

Strategists say Cooper’s entry makes North Carolina a more difficult seat for the GOP to hold, though a Democrat hasn’t won a ...

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper led Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley by 6 percentage points in ...

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

This week, North Carolina’s top Senate candidates kicked off their campaigns without neck ties. It wasn’t accidental.

WHATLEY MAKES SENATE BID OFFICIAL Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley tossed his hat into the U.S. Senate ...

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

A new poll of the North Carolina Senate election points to a close race between former Governor Roy Cooper and Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley in what is likely to be one of the ...

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

WASHINGTON — Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley has formally kicked off his bid for the hotly-contested ...

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 ...