Michael Whatley for US Senate ad with Jerry Torres, retired Army Master Sergeant Jerry Torres.

A new campaign video ad recently dropped for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina, Michael Whatley.

Whatley is endorsed by President Trump in the US Senate race for North Carolina.

You can watch the advertisement here.

Whatley has been deeply involved in Republican politics for years. He served as chair of the North Carolina Republican Party and more recently as the co-chair of the Republican National Committee during the 2024 election cycle.

Whatley is now the GOP nominee in the 2026 North Carolina Senate race, he is running against former Democratic Governor, Roy Cooper.

While race is considered competitive and Republicans have experience a winning streak in North Carolina Senate races for almost two decades, Cooper has had a consistent lead in the polls.

You can learn more about Cooper’s campaign here and Whatley’s campaign here.

The video was produced by Jerry Torres, a retired US Army Green Beret and founder of a billion dollar business that created thousands of jobs in the U.S. across five continents. He has built and fully funded humanitarian and environmental programs on three continents. He has also written a book you can check out here.

Torres begins by addressing North Carolina veterans and the voters of North Carolina:

“My fellow North Carolina veterans, my name is Jerry Torres, and I’m a retired US Army Master Sergeant with nearly 30 years of military service. I’m speaking to all North Carolina voters, but mostly to our veterans and our veteran supporters.”

He reminds the veterans of our great nation that they are the reason that American remains free and sovereign.

Torres then asks our North Carolina veterans to “protect the common sense values of North Carolina” and vote for Whatley to “protect the freedoms we fought so long and so hard to defend.”

He then makes the case for Whatley as someone that will fight the progressive, socialist nonsense in the U.S. Senate and calls him a “proven and courageous leader.”

Torres ends by reminding North Carolina veterans that both them, along with himself, defended our nation and our rights, not to lose them to “deceitful socialists and weak  Democrats who seek power to eliminate these very same rights.”

“let’s protect what we earned in service to our nation and vote for Michael Whatley for U.S. Senate to make certain that all future Americans are born free and remain free.”

The Gateway Pundit spoke to Torres in an exclusive interview about the video and why he believes North Carolina should elect Whatley as their next U.S. Senator.

“Michael for his entire career has served North Carolina in some capacity. He has always been focused on public service,” Torres told TGP.

“When you focus on public service, you don’t get rich. Michael has had opportunities to run businesses and become wealthy. He instead chose to stay true to his values. He’s served in public service his entire career and has made public service salaries, turning away opportunities to make larger salaries.”

Torres also emphasized Whatley’s true conservative values to represent North Carolina, often considered a conservative leaning state on the federal level:

“He has good, right down the middle conservative values and he will use them to serve North Carolina and the country at large.”

Torres believes that Whatley is the right person for the job, due to his selfless nature and passion to do what’s right for others, even referring to Whatley as  “reluctant hero.”

“I look at Michael as the reluctant hero. The reason is that he has not sought and otherwise would not have sought running for Senate if so many people didn’t encourage him to run, he wouldn’t have ran,” Torres told TGP.

“He was encouraged by a lot of people because he is a person of the people and for the people and that’s who you want to run for office.  He has not lost his roots, he has embraced them as a North Carolinian.”

Torres also revealed to TGP that Whatley was given multiple opportunities in President Trump’s administration, in which he turned down all of them.

“He turned down ambassadorship opportunities that he was offered by the President. He didn’t want to do that because he wanted to work for the people.”

According to Torres, the rise of socialism and communism in the modern Democratic Party could have been one of the potential factors that motivated Whatley to run for Senate:

“One of the things that I thought was the tipping point for him was the nonsense coming from the far-left, the socialists, the communists, and the progressives. Him being a very strong conservative with great North Carolinian conservative values, he’s the guy to represent us in the U.S. Senate to hold back progressives and advance the agenda of the President, which is to continue make America great and keep America great again.”

Torres ended the interview by speaking positively about Whatley’s personal character and why he decided to support him:

“He’s a good guy. A person of the people, a very humble man. Very likable, engaging, and genuine and that’s why I am throwing my energy and support behind him.”

The North Carolina Senate race is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched Senate races of the 2026 midterm cycle and it is one of the prime pickup opportunities for Democrats.

Whatley is someone that knows how to win in this state, which he demonstrated tremendously during his time as state party chair and national party co-chair.

Cooper is still a formidable opponent, as he is a popular former Governor, leaving office with an approval rating of around 54% and winning twice, while President Trump simultaneously won North Carolina both times.

Can Republicans hold onto this seat? Will Democrats win a Senate race here for the first time since 2008? What are your thoughts on this video ad?

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