John,

I'm about to become Wake County's next District Attorney, so let me be blunt about something I know well: the attacks calling Roy Cooper "soft on crime" are lies. Not spin. Not an exaggeration. Flat-out, documented lies.

A Republican super PAC is spending millions trying to blame Roy for crimes he had nothing to do with. Independent reporters who looked at these ads found the same thing: the claims fall apart on the facts. In one case, the crime didn't even happen in North Carolina. In another, the person blamed had no record and was never released by anyone. The PAC is even running fake "news" websites dressed up to look like real journalism.

This is what a desperate, flailing campaign looks like. Michael Whatley is Donald Trump's hand-picked guy, the man Trump installed to run the RNC, and he's trailing badly. The facts aren't on his side, so his allies are inventing new ones and spending a fortune to jam them into your feed.

I've spent my career in and around the justice system. I know the difference between a real record on crime and a manufactured smear. And I'm not going to sit quietly while hundreds of millions of dollars in lies get pumped into this race.

Roy Cooper has the truth on his side, but truth doesn't buy ad time. That takes resources, and it takes people like you.

I've set up a split donation between Roy's campaign and mine. Chip in today and help fight back against the lies with the truth.

If you've saved payment information with ActBlue, your split donation between Cooper Victory Fund and Wiley Nickel will process immediately:

This is Trump's playbook, run by Trump's handpicked guy. Let's prove it doesn't work in North Carolina.

— Wiley

Wiley Nickel is the incoming District Attorney for Wake County. He represented North Carolina's 13th Congressional District, which he flipped from red to blue in 2022 before Republicans gerrymandered him out of the seat. Now, Wiley is focused on making sure the fastest-growing county in our state has a justice system it can count on. That work starts now, and it starts with you. DONATE