U.S. Senate · NC · Democratic candidate · 2026

Roy Cooper

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in North Carolina

A former attorney general and two-term governor, Cooper is running for Senate with plans to lower food, health care, energy and housing costs.

StateNorth Carolina

OfficeU.S. Senate

ElectionNov. 3, 2026

Policy priorities

Where Roy stands.

Campaign position

Supports blocking anticompetitive grocery mergers and banning personalized pricing algorithms and digital price coordination

Campaign position

Supports restoring enhanced ACA tax credits, reversing Medicaid cuts and improving oversight of insurance denials

Campaign position

Supports broader Medicare drug-price negotiations, annual prescription-cost caps and automatic enrollment in hospital charity care

Campaign position

Supports making data centers pay their full power costs, modernizing the grid and banning shutoffs during dangerous heat or cold

Campaign position

Supports expanded child-care tax credits, better-paid care workers and employer incentives for on-site care or subsidies

Campaign position

Supports more multifamily and modular homes, limits on large corporate homebuyers and a ban on coordinated rent-pricing software

Record and background

2001–2017
Experience
North Carolina attorney general
Led the state’s legal office and pursued consumer-protection cases before becoming governor.
2017–2025
Experience
North Carolina governor
Served two terms leading North Carolina.
March 2023
Accomplishment
Signed Medicaid expansion
Signed bipartisan House Bill 76 into law to expand Medicaid eligibility in North Carolina.

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