NY Times poll: Cooper over Whatley by SEVEN
And the beat goes on ….
It’s nearly a year since Michael Whatley jumped into the 2026 US Senate race. And we’ve had a year – with the exception of ONE poll last July showing a tie — of nothing but good polls for Roy Cooper in the race for US Senate in North Carolina. No one – over the course of a year – has been able to produce a poll showing a Whatley lead.
The latest poll is a collaboration between The New York Times and Siena University. The survey of 601 likely voters – taken the last two weeks of June — has Cooper at 50 percent and Whatley at 43 percent.
This is the fourth poll since February showing Cooper at the 50 percent mark. Cooper was at the 49 percent mark in three other polls taken since March.
It appears that even those *flaming liberals* at Breitbart are giving up on Michael Whatley:
[…] Democrats are almost certain to flip this one.
Much to my frustration, my home state is the last Southern state to still vote for Democrats.
With insufferable RINO Thom Tillis retiring (because he would’ve lost his primary), this is an open seat pitting former Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper against Republican Michael Whatley.
Today’s New York Times/Siena poll has Cooper up by seven, 50 to 43 percent. Whatley has not led in a single poll, and the RealClear average has Cooper up by a comfortable 6.9 percent. […]
Right now, Elizabeth Dole – Whatley’s former boss – holds the title for suffering the worst beat-down in over 50 years of a GOP US Senate candidate in North Carolina. But Big Mike is threatening to snatch that, um, *honor* away from her.
Like most people, I hate to see Roy Cooper and that wife of his on TV smiling and happy about stuff. But I’m afraid we’re going to be seeing even more of that kind of stuff between now and November.
We need to focus on HOW we got to this point. We’ve had two major statewide races (2024 and 2026) where the Raleigh crowd shoved candidates down our throats and basically canceled primaries. We got stuck with lousy nominees who had not been vetted prior to facing the Democrats. Josh Stein and Roy Cooper have apparently done the vetting we should have in primaries. And we’re left to just sit here and face the music and take our whipping.
The good news we’re hearing? The math may be there for the GOP to hold the US Senate even if we send Roy Cooper up to Capitol Hill.
We don’t need to let Whatley’s pathetic campaign drag down the entire GOP ticket. There are plenty of good candidates down-ballot who need our help. Don’t forget them.
