A post by @DeItaone on X.

Democrat Roy Cooper defeated Republican Michael Whatley in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race, flipping a seat previously held by Republicans, according to Decision Desk HQ. The result marks a key pickup for Democrats in one of the most closely watched Senate contests of the cycle. North Carolina had been a Republican-held seat that Democrats targeted as part of their path to competing for the chamber’s majority. The outcome shifts the balance in the Senate map and narrows Republicans’ margin in a state central to national electoral calculations. Attention now turns to remaining uncalled races and how the North Carolina result shapes each party’s final Senate math.