{"id":329123,"date":"2025-12-04T01:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329123\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T01:56:13","slug":"former-north-carolina-governor-roy-cooper-files-candidacy-for-united-states-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329123\/","title":{"rendered":"Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper files candidacy for United States Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) &#8211; Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has filed paperwork to run for the United States Senate in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cooper announced his candidacy in a post to X on Wednesday, Dec. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019ve lived and served in North Carolina my entire life, and I\u2019m proud to be on the ballot for the United States Senate,\u201d said Cooper. \u201cI\u2019m ready to go to Washington to be an independent voice for North Carolina and focus on the issues that really matter to people \u2013 supporting more good-paying jobs, making health care more affordable and accessible, and lowering costs for people who are trying to make ends meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WECT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) &#8211; Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has filed paperwork to run for the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,167201,167199,3,51189,720,167202,167200,21,19,22,20,25,24,19043,2248],"class_list":["post-329123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-electioncandidates","tag-nc-governor","tag-news","tag-roy-cooper","tag-senate","tag-senate-candidates","tag-united-state-senate","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vote","tag-wect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}