{"id":21398,"date":"2026-04-15T22:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/roy-cooper-far-outraises-michael-whatley-in-north-carolina-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T22:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:46:49","slug":"roy-cooper-far-outraises-michael-whatley-in-north-carolina-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/roy-cooper-far-outraises-michael-whatley-in-north-carolina-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Cooper far outraises Michael Whatley in North Carolina Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In North Carolina, former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper continues to far outraise Republican Michael Whatley, growing a massive cash disparity in one of the most closely watched Senate races this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper raised $13.8 million to Whatley\u2019s $5 million in the first quarter of the year, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission. That encompasses both the run-up to and aftermath of their effectively uncontested primaries in early March.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper entered the second quarter with $18.5 million in cash on hand, while Whatley reported having more than $2.5 million in the bank.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina is a top target for Democrats. Cooper, the swing state\u2019s most recent governor, draws on his broad name ID to pull in a sizable fundraising haul. Most polling shows him with a double-digit lead over Whatley.<\/p>\n<p>National Republicans are planning to give Whatley, the former RNC chair, a major boost. Senate Leadership Fund has pledged $71 million to the Senate race.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In North Carolina, former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper continues to far outraise Republican Michael Whatley, growing a massive cash disparity in one of the most closely watched Senate races this year. Cooper raised $13.8 million to Whatley\u2019s $5 million in the first quarter of the year, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}