Democrat Senator With Deep Financial Ties To China, Campaigns For Roy Cooper
This weekend, U.S. Senator from Arizona Mark Kelly held four campaign stops to energize the progressive base, and Senate Candidate former Governor Roy Cooper attended the Mecklenburg event. Cooper was noticeably absent from the stop in Western North Carolina, probably because Cooper cannot risk a well attend event out west given his disastrous response to Hurricane Helene.
Senator Kelly is the first national surrogate deployed by Democrats to North Carolina ahead of the midterm election. However, last cycle Kelly briefly considered as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, until they reviewed the research on him and decided Tim Waltz was clearly the better choice.
These might be surprising if you only read the legacy media, but here are some to top reasons why Mark Kelly is a political liability for North Carolina Democrats.
From Axios, in 2012, Kelly co-founded a company called World view, which received funding from Tencent, one of the largest tech companies in China. In 2025, the Biden administration added Tencent to the Chinese Military Blacklist for their partnership with the Communist Party Military. The company has been accused of leveraging innocent looking technology to spy on Americans.
According to the mandatory financial disclosures, Kelly made at least $1.7 million as a paid speaker. In 2016, Hillary Clinton came under fire for these high paid speeches, which made her appear beholden to special interest. For example in 2019, Kelly returned a $55,000 payment he received from speech he gave in the UAE at an event sponsored by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.
In 2022, Kelly was criticized for trying to cover up Biden’s border crisis that was impacting his home state.
Tim’s Take: North Carolina will be the top state this midterm election, and national Democrats will inevitably march through the state pushing Cooper. This will inevitably prove to be a liability for Cooper, given Democrats’ toxic brand. For example, Kelly is tied to the Chinese spy balloon that directly surveilled military bases in North Carolina. That shows how much Cooper cares about national security, he’s campaigning with the guy tied to CCP spy operation.