"Hello friends and hello North Carolina - finally," Cooper said just after taking the dais in front of several hundred people cheering for him in Raleigh. "It is also humbling and it has been a long journey for all of us, but we are finally here."
Holding an evening victory rally four weeks after Election Day wasn't something Cooper, the outgoing attorney general, had anticipated. But McCrory didn't concede until Monday after most formal election protests were set aside and a partial county recount showed Cooper still ahead by a little more than 10,000 votes from 4.7 million cast.
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