If the people of North Carolina elect Roy Cooper to the U.S. Senate, he will be a rubber stamp for the Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies nationwide, Michael Whatley told Newsmax on Monday.
Whatley, the former Republican National Committee chair and current North Carolina Senate candidate who is expected to face the Democrat Cooper in next year’s election, said on ?Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” that he has made “Mugshot Mondays” a key part of his campaign in which a different criminal is highlighted every week who has been released to the streets numerous times.
“Unfortunately, we have so many different criminals to choose from when we talk about people that [have] been arrested and released [in North Carolina] … on the streets over and over again in [former North Carolina Gov.] Roy Cooper’s soft-on-crime policies that we wanted to find a creative way to go ahead and highlight this type of problem.”
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