Overview
- Senate Majority PAC announced on Thursday that it will add $11 million to its North Carolina effort, bringing the group's commitment to $42 million for Roy Cooper.
- The Republican Senate Leadership Fund has already pledged at least $71 million to back Michael Whatley, setting up large party investments on both sides.
- Cooper outraised Whatley in the March–June reporting period with about $14.8 million to Whatley’s roughly $5 million, giving Cooper a cash advantage in the near term.
- Federal Election Commission data through June show independent expenditures in North Carolina at about $4.9 million versus about $12.9 million in Texas, though analysts note outside groups often concentrate spending in the campaign's final months.
- Public polling has generally shown Cooper in the lead but with narrower margins recently, and the widening national battleground has shifted some outside dollars away from North Carolina so far.