{"id":133370,"date":"2024-07-31T12:27:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133370"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:27:25","slug":"roy-cooper-withdraws-from-harriss-vice-presidential-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=133370","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Roy Cooper Withdraws From Harris\u2019s Vice-Presidential Field&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/29\/us\/politics\/roy-cooper-kamala-harris-vp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, who had been seen as a leading contender to become Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s running mate, has withdrawn from the vice-presidential sweepstakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Cooper confirmed the news, reported earlier by The New York Times, in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/roycoopernc\/status\/1818080476273201442?s=46\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media post<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis just wasn\u2019t the right time for North Carolina and for me to potentially be on a national ticket,\u201d Mr. Cooper wrote. \u201cShe has an outstanding list of people from which to choose, and we\u2019ll all work to make sure she wins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Cooper, who previously served as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, was asked last week by the Harris campaign to be vetted for vice president but declined to participate, according to two people engaged in the process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, who had been seen as a leading contender to become Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s running mate, has withdrawn from the vice-presidential sweepstakes. Mr. Cooper confirmed the news, reported earlier by The New York Times, in a&nbsp;social media post&nbsp;on Monday night. \u201cThis just wasn\u2019t the right time for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133371,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133370\/revisions\/133371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}