re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
My guess that the plan is this:
1) get Burr (not daily obeisant to Trump) to resign.
2) hope that Cooper appoints a Democrat to replace Burr.
3) then use that action of Cooper to rally the Republicans in NC to replace Cooper this fall.
North Carolina law says that filling a Senate vacancy, the person appointed must be from the same party. Thus Gov. Cooper must appoint a Republican.