Roy Cooper, the Governor of North Carolina, told Face the Nation on Sunday that Kamala Harris will win the election if she captures his state.
Kamala Harris and Roy Cooper have a strong relationship. The North Carolina Democrat was high on her list of potential running mates, and he was considered a finalist before Tim Walz was tapped. Cooper, who will be term-limited out of the Governor's mansion, acts as one of the Democrat's key surrogates.
During his conversation with host Margaret Brennan, Cooper noted that the Vice President has visited his state regularly over the last few years. He told Margaret Brennan:
"It’s close here in North Carolina. It always is. This was Biden-Harris’s closest loss in 2020, only 1.3 percent. So the fact that Kamala Harris, as Vice President of the United States, has been to North Carolina 17 times shows that she cares about our state. She knows that we are in play.”
Cooper continued, "And she knows that if she wins North Carolina, she will be the next President of the United States because Trump has no other pathway."
The North Carolina Governor closed by saying:
"When we continue to get this information out to the American public, and to people here in North Carolina, that Kamala Harris has an economic plan that’s going to help lower the cost for everyday people, that’s going to help families thrive, that is going to protect women’s reproductive freedom. I think at the end of the day, that’s going to be what works here."