Trump campaigns for Whatley at Greenville rally

President Donald Trump used a nearly two-hour rally in Greenville, North Carolina, to campaign for Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley and urge voters to support Republicans in the November 3 midterm elections. During the event, Trump also told the crowd that Democratic candidate Roy Cooper would become their senator, remarks that drew attention amid polling showing Cooper ahead. Trump said he was taking a more active role in this election cycle than in previous midterms. “I’m working like a dog,” he told supporters, describing a schedule of campaign appearances across the country despite not being on the ballot himself. He said he had previously left much of the campaigning to other Republicans. The rally at Pitt-Greenville Airport focused on Whatley, a former Republican National Committee chairman, who is running for the open Senate seat against Cooper, North Carolina’s former governor. Trump invited Whatley onstage, where the candidate made the case for continuing the administration’s policies and highlighted differences with Cooper on taxes, immigration enforcement and public safety. Trump said of Cooper, “He’s going to become your senator,” and later repeated that...