Tuesday night’s vote totals set the stage for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper to compete against the state’s lieutenant governor, Dan Forest, in November’s gubernatorial election.

With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Cooper secured the Democratic party’s nomination with 87 percent of the vote against retired Army officer Ernest Reeves.

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