Roy Cooper Raids the GOP Senate Map; it Echoes Across the U.S.
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Halle-freakin-lujah! Roy Cooper is jumping into the race for the open North Carolina Senate seat!
You may remember the seat was left open when Mr. 58-spoons-full-of-sugar to make a lb of crushed Adderall go down, Don-boy, insulted GOP Senator, Thom Tillis.
Tillis gave Trump damn near everything Trump ever wanted (ok, no sharks, batteries or porn stars). But Tillis wouldn’t support his job-killing, debt-exploding Big Barbaric Bill to starve children and kill Americans by confiscating their healthcare. So Trump, per usual, did the adult thing. He insulted Tillis, said he’d support a primary challenger. Tillis responded with a stick it up your *** I’m out. Whoops.
So we find ourselves here. With an open U.S. Senate seat in the swing state of North Carolina while Trump’s numbers crash like he’s Mel Gibson driving in Malibu with the blood alcohol level of Cognac, yelling “Jews start all the wars in the world.”
Folks, Trump’s polling isn’t in the toilet. No, that doesn’t do it justice. His numbers are stuck in the “500 yards of sh*t smelling foulness” that Andy Dufresne crawled through in Shawshank. Except Trump ain’t coming out clean on the other side, even with the adult diaper.
Ok, back to the Tar Heel State (side note: what the hell is a tar heel?). This decision by Roy Cooper..it’s honestly hard to explain how huge it is. An earthquake. Not a tremor. A tectonic shift that just cracked GOP’s control of the Senate wide open. And I’m here to tell you why—because monopoly media sure won’t.
Cooper isn’t just another name on a ballot. He’s a two-term North Carolina Governor, former four-term NC Attorney General. So, to quote Keith Olbermann, “if you’re scoring at home—or even if you’re alone, ”he’s run a lot in this state and won. The kinda Democrat who’s successful in the South because he doesn’t back down and doesn’t play cute with half measures to make everyone happy.
Sure, he’s a moderate that fits his state, but passionate about equality under the law and helping working people. He fought to expand Medicaid (nice contrast with GOP BBB ghouls), harshen penalties for domestic violence and tighten regulations on guns.
Cooper’s so popular, one wonders what he could’ve done if MAGAs hadn’t gerrymandered their way to state legislative control and stripped him of as much power as possible. Because—and you may know this—when Republicans lose, they cheat. Ya know, like Trump on a Scottish (or really any) golf course.
And the timing here is key. To reiterate, Trump’s cratering in the polls faster than a crypto scam after an SEC investigation. The stench of the Epstein files is growing stronger by the day—so inverse to JD Vance’s VP portfolio—and voters are connecting the dots. Which dots?
Trump, Epstein and the corrupt billionaire class of Musks, Thiels, Ellisons, Mercers, Uihleins, one Koch, one Adelson (the others are dead). You know, the predator class.
The billionaires destroying our democracy, the middle class, starving school-kids, disposing of workers, getting tax cuts on private-plane expenses while stealing Medicaid from people, throwing immigrants into concentration camps…
And this all ties directly into the Epstein scandal, how?
Because the heartless whores who robbed Americans of their jobs and healthcare because they could, robbed young girls of their youth, trust and sometimes lives, because they could. They’re repulsive. So react that way!
Don’t poll test. Speak with passion. The righteous fury you should feel for the grotesque piles of rat-droppings in three-week-old Brie, covered in black tar and asparagus pee in the sun the past week in Death Valley, CA.
This isn’t hard: You wanna take power back from billionaires in secret rooms robbing us of our bank accounts, robbing girls of their youth, robbing our government blind and robbing America of all it’s ever been? You wanna kick the GOP and their secret, billionaire club of grave robbers, America-haters and sexual assaulters to the curb?
Make this your narrative my fellow Democrats. Pummel them on this every single day.
Roy Cooper can do this and do it well. From Epstein to Bessent. Mar-a-Lago to Mike Johnson. Billionaires shielding pedophiles to billionaires writing our laws. Sexual abuse and cover-ups to the systematic destruction of the working and middle class.
And he can channel the old saying that “all politics is local,” as Trump rejected full FEMA funding to North Carolina after Hurricane Helene, spitting in its face in its time of need. Then, for good measure, shared conspiracy theories about the funding disappearing to justify his cruelty.
Some North Carolians just may remember that kind of unnecessary d*kishness.
And Cooper will do all this in a way that lands. Moves people. Changes the national conversation. And with his name and profile, his getting in this race could not be more consequential. It will convince oft-way-too-cautious Democrats to get in races across the country. Remember, when Trump is 10-15% under water, good Democratic candidates can not only win in NC, but in Kansas and Kentucky, as they have.
You’re already seeing the ripple effect. Colin Allred’s going full throttle in Texas, where a man who can match Trump crime for crime, Ken Paxton, is challenging incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Paxton may beat him in a primary or severely weaken him.
Florida and Ohio—recently slipping into MAGA oblivion—look winnable in polling. Both have special U.S. Senate elections in November for open Rubio and Vance seats. If good Democrats step up—and now that’s much more likely—they can win.
Courage is contagious, as we often talk about here at Blue Amp. A popular, powerful six-term North Carolina executive jumping into this race sends a powerful message to Democratic candidates on the fence across America. And get attention—with his name recognition—from the clickbait-cucks in the corporate media.
Democrats can also learn from Hallie Shoffner, whom we talked to on “Amped Up.”
A sixth generation farmer til MAGA policies wrecked her farm, she’s running vs Tom Cotton in Arkansas. Yes, very tough territory. Yet Hallie’s incredible, a real human and lifetime farmer, who rips Republicans and Democratic insiders for abandoning AR (she’s right, when the 50-state strategy was stupidly dumped).
In a time when Trump’s falling like he’s Eric trying to walk across an invisible bridge, Shoffner goes straight after Tom Cotton votes against the farm bill!. Also, Cotton should learn to smile any day now.
This is Tom Cotton in every pic. Someone score him a valium, please
And if Democrats can learn how to message against insiders—Trump, Republicans but also Democratic insiders, like Shoffner, they will have a shot in places they usually have none, with the right candidates.
So back to this huge decision by Roy Cooper: This is how waves start. Not with poll-tested slogans, but real-life leaders. With courage. With clarity of purpose. Roy Cooper just gave other Democrats permission to run like they mean it. Like the future of democracy depends on it—because it does.
If we play this right, and if we support candidates who are ready to throw punches and tell the truth, we’re not just looking at a good year. We’re looking at a realignment.
As the late and great Val Kilmer said as Doc Holliday in Tombstone, “Why Johnny Ringo, it looks like somebody just walked over your grave.”
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