John, I’m sure you know already that I have to ask for your support for our campaign. I don’t like to bother you with so many of these requests, but failing to meet our fundraising goals could sink our campaign, so I have to keep asking. Here’s why:
We already know that this could be the most competitive U.S. Senate election of 2026, and the polls are getting closer and closer. Winning won’t be easy, but we have a blueprint to succeed. You see, we’ve done it before.
Both of my elections for Governor of North Carolina were close, and both of those victories came in years that Donald Trump carried the state in the presidential election. We won by connecting with folks from all kinds of communities and making it clear that people are my priority. Not a political party, not personal power — just making things better for folks right here in North Carolina. This is what we’ll do again.
But I also know that this race for the U.S. Senate is unlike anything we’ve faced yet.
To win, we will have to enact an ambitious campaign of voter outreach, meeting with folks in Raleigh and Charlotte and Asheville, but also in the most rural, hardest-to-reach corners of the state, just as we did before. That doesn’t come cheap. And we will also have to go toe-to-toe with the GOP’s massive campaign of spending against me.
The path to the U.S. Senate majority runs through North Carolina, so national Republicans are uniting around my GOP-insider opponent. PACs tied to Senate GOP leadership are already running ads attacking me, and we expect GOP groups will spend hundreds of millions more before this campaign ends.
We have to meet them dollar for dollar in spending — on TV, online, in the mail, and wherever else we can reach NC voters. In a race this close, every vote — and every cent — will count.
We have an $800,000 online goal to reach this month, and I’m asking you to invest in our campaign now so we don’t fall behind. I’m relying on you to give anything that fits in your budget right away.
Thanks so much,
Roy Cooper
