(The Center Square) – The bid of Roy Cooper to the U.S. Senate is getting a $31.4 million infusion for television advertising, the Senate Majority PAC told The Center Square on Wednesday morning.
Cooper is bidding to become the first Democrat since 2008 in North Carolina to win a U.S. Senate seat, and the first to do so at the midterms since 1998. He faces Republican Michael Whatley and Libertarian Shannon Bray on Nov. 3.
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