Republicans are trying to bury Roy Cooper on crime. Will it work?

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In President Donald Trump’s get-out-the-vote message to North Carolinians this week, he hammered Democratic Senate nominee Roy Cooper over his crime record during his two-term tenure as governor.

It has become a recurring theme in North Carolina for Republicans, who are hoping to hold on to the battleground Senate seat against one of the Democrats’ top recruits of the cycle.

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