(The Center Square) – As polls turn up the heat in the race for the White House, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper poured more fuel on the battleground fire from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
During a network interview Wednesday morning, the governor took a rip at what cannot be controlled: the family situations born into by the Republican ticket of former President Donald Trump and Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance.
Cooper – a second-term Democratic governor who has won 13 consecutive elections over the last 40 years – reasoned that the early backgrounds of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz would connect better with voters in North Carolina, turning the state blue for only the third time since Lyndon B. Johnson won in 1964…