North Carolina is a purplish state–it tends to elect Democratic governors–but it generally leans a little bit red. What does that mean for the Cooper campaign?
There is probably such a thing as a Trump-Cooper voter. Cooper will want to keep him on his side. That means, in all likelihood, that Cooper will spend less time bashing Trump than most of his blue team colleagues. When he does complain about the current state of affairs, he will probably do it without mentioning Trump’s name, and when he does single out guilty parties, they will be Trump’s evil advisers, not the man himself.