ANALYSIS: DNC Autopsy Highlights Fundamental Problems With Cooper For Senate Campaign
Last week, the Democrat National Committee released its so-called autopsy report on what went wrong in the 2024 election and why Democrats lost all seven battleground states. Famously, the Republican National Committee released an after-action report in 2012. Unlike the recently released document from the DNC, the RNC’s 2012 autopsy had named authors and no note from the parent organization undermining the report they paid for.
While the autopsy tried to downplay missteps by Democrats, there were five key reasons that progressives fell short in 2024:
"A persistent inability or unwillingness to listen to all voters."
"We have lost the confidence we once received from everyday Americans."
"The economy was bad."
Immigration policies including Kamala Harris as "border czar."
Harris' position of free transgender surgery for illegal immigrants and refusal to change position
The problem for the Democrat Senate Nominee in North Carolina, former Governor Roy Cooper is that his record already puts him on the wrong side of these issues.
During the COVID lockdowns, Cooper refused to listen to everyday North Carolinians. He unevenly targeted bars and small businesses. A federal judge had to intervene to stop him from closing churches. He abused his emergency power to keep schools closed until the Republican legislature outmaneuvered him. He is a prime example of an out-of-touch politician with “a persistent inability or unwillingness to listen to all voters.”
North Carolinians rely on the state government to keep them safe. Cooper took the opposite policy approach. He colluded with his allies to release over 3,500 criminals, many of whom were later charged with serious crimes like rape and murder. Finally, he commuted the sentences of 15 convicted killers and launched a “Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice” to “reimagine public safety.”
Cooper vetoed multiple tax cuts for families and small businesses and opposed the largest middle-class tax cut in state history, yet tried to claim credit for the Republican legislature's success despite fighting it every step of the way. Cooper worked against efforts to improve the economy.
Democrats’ open border policy with “Border Czar” Kamala Harris was politically toxic, and Cooper was a loyal follower of the Biden agenda. Cooper vetoed bills to require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Finally, Cooper was a proud champion of the transgender community and is now quite one in his run for the United States Senate. Cooper vetoed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, allowing his allies to force girls to share locker rooms with biological males and face unfair competition. He vetoed legislation that prohibited dangerous sex change procedures on minors and continues to run away from hard questions on his radical gender agenda.
Cooper brings a long, toxic record to the 2026 Senate contest, similar to Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. The DNC autopsy provides Republicans a roadmap to defeat Cooper in November.
