{"id":134691,"date":"2024-08-28T02:37:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=134691"},"modified":"2024-08-28T02:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T02:37:06","slug":"harris-hype-man-north-carolina-gov-roy-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=134691","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Harris&#8217; hype man: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/raleigh\/2024\/08\/23\/north-carolina-gov-roy-cooper-dnc-speech-kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>: &#8220;North Carolina&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/08\/19\/roy-cooper-2024-dnc-north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gov. Roy Cooper<\/a>&nbsp;delivered the final speech ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night in Chicago, cementing his position as one of the party&#8217;s biggest stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong>&nbsp;Cooper&#8217;s prime-time speech \u2014 a coveted slot on the final night of the convention \u2014&nbsp;comes on the heels of a monthlong flurry of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/raleigh\/2024\/07\/22\/biden-president-drops-out-harris-cooper-vp-pick-running-mate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national attention on the term-limited governor<\/a>&nbsp;and this swing state,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/raleigh\/2024\/07\/23\/harris-roy-cooper-vp-pick-running-mate-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which Democrats hope to win in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">It&#8217;s yet another sign of the focus this year on North Carolina, which former President Trump won in 2020 by just 1.3%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">&#8220;Hello, America. I&#8217;m Roy Cooper, the last guy standing between you and the moment we&#8217;re all waiting for,&#8221; Cooper began.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong>\u00a0A frequent surrogate and loyal soldier for the entirety of the Biden-Harris administration, Cooper hosted President Joe Biden and Harris in North Carolina a combined 11 times this year before Biden dropped out of the race.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios: &#8220;North Carolina&nbsp;Gov. Roy Cooper&nbsp;delivered the final speech ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night in Chicago, cementing his position as one of the party&#8217;s biggest stars. Why it matters:&nbsp;Cooper&#8217;s prime-time speech \u2014 a coveted slot on the final night of the convention \u2014&nbsp;comes on the heels of a&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134691","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=134691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134692,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134691\/revisions\/134692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}