All posts tagged "Roy Cooper"

CONCORD, N.C. — Vice President JD Vance’s visit to a sweltering hangar at an airport outside Charlotte on Wednesday provided a campaign-style platform for familiar attacks on Democrats as being “soft on crime,” even as news broke of a deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas.

With a militarized backdrop including SWAT and emergency response vehicles flanked by local law enforcement officers, Vance sought to highlight both the killing of Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light-rail last month and the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah two weeks ago.

But such efforts were somewhat overshadowed by news of the ICE shooting in Dallas, which left one immigrant detainee dead and two critically injured. ...

A leading contender to become Kamala Harris's running mate for the Democrats has exited the "veepstakes."

Roy Cooper, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, told Harris' team he withdrew from consideration, two people briefed on the matter told The New York Times. CNN confirmed the news, citing a source.

Cooper wrote in a Monday night statement shared to X that he strongly supports Harris' campaign and knows "she's going to win."...