It’s still very early in the 2026 election cycle, but North Carolina Democratic senate candidate Roy Cooper is an early favorite to be one of the most annoyingly disingenuous candidates of the cycle.

On August 22 — more than two weeks ago — on a Charlotte, N.C., light rail train car, Decarlos Brown, unprovoked, pulled out a knife and stabbed Iryna Zarutska to death. As you probably know, Brown has a long record of crimes, including felony charges for larceny and breaking and entering, robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by a felon, and assault, going back ...