Cooper is from the party that denies ISIS is Islam.
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper Wednesday gave Charlotte Democrats a preview of his probable 2016 campaign for governor, calling the election “a battle for the heart and soul of North Carolina.”
“That’s when we take the state back from the extremists,” he told the Democratic Uptown Forum.
Cooper, 57, stopped short of announcing his candidacy to challenge Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. But just barely.[…]
In his remarks at the Levine Museum of the New South, Cooper attacked McCrory and the GOP legislature without ever mentioning the governor or any other Republican by name. He said both are “not just conservative but extremist.”
He singled out their decisions to cut taxes, which he said disproportionately favors the rich, allow tax money for private schools and cut education spending in many areas. He called their rejection of Medicaid expansion their “most economically reckless decision.”
“We have to beat them at the ballot box … ,” he said. “We cannot let these extremists hijack North Carolina.”