Source: Paul Woolverton, FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 8/19/16

Pat McCrory and Roy Cooper each tried to persuade business leaders gathered in Pinehurst on Thursday morning that they deserve to be elected governor in November. McCrory, the one-term Republican incumbent, and Cooper, the Democratic attorney general, made separate speeches at the Summer Leadership Conference of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, held in Pinehurst.

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