If the president wasn’t destroying the country, Roy Cooper would have stunned North Carolina with his fundraising hall. Cooper raised $9.5 million in the latest quarter. Running for Senate, Cooper raised almost twice that sum over the holidays a year out from the general election. Running hard and raising copious contributions, Cooper is in a stronger place than any North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate in years. This race is unlikely to end in a landslide; North Carolina has become deep-purple and the competition is always ferocious.