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In north carolina? >> roy cooper officially sworn in as north carolina's 75th governor, seconds after midnight. the private ceremony came after the governor elect moved a bitter battle with republican law mamakers into a courtroom friday. cooper hoping to back a set of republican backed laws that limit his authority as the state's chief executive. just 34 hours before governor elect cooper took the oath of office a north carolina judge granted his request for a temporary restraining order locking some provisions of the law that called for a shake up of the state's election board. most provisio...

Refused to concede for weeks after the election and even signed a bill before leaving office stripping cooper of his executive power. cooper had a small win this week hoping to take back some control. here's cnn's polo sandoval. >> reporter: roy cooper will be sworn in as the state's 75th governor right after midnight on new year's day. the private ceremony comes after the governor elect moved a bitter battle with republican lawmakeners to a courtroom friday. cooper, a democrat, hoping to block a set of republican-backed laws that limit his authority as a state's chief executive. just 34 hours...

The longer it's an issue the democrats will keep builting them up with it. >> speculation even from the relatively left leaning mayor in charlotte this was a calculation a long time ago that it would help roy cooper in his run for the governorship if they got mccrory and the lemming lay temperature intangled in this thing and if that was the plan mccrory fell for it? >> there is some irony in mccrory being the fall guy for this because his reputation before this past year was more of a business-minded, chamber of commerce republican. he was popular. and everything that he was hoping to campaig...

Offer legislation to do so cleanly. the surprise decision sparked outrage from democrats who claimed republicans failed to hold up their end of the bargain and slipped in language that would have made this only a partial repeal. the city of charlotte agreed to repeal its own lgbt protection ordinance which of course had prompted the bathroom bill in the first place with the understanding that the state general assembly would get rid of the bill requiring individuals to use the bathrooms pertaining to the gender on their birth certificate. bringing in north carolina's democratic governor elec...

The longer it's an issue the democrats will keep builting them up with it. >> speculation even from the relatively left leaning mayor in charlotte this was a calculation a long time ago that it would help roy cooper in his run for the governorship if they got mccrory and the lemming lay temperature intangled in this thing and if that was the plan mccrory fell for it? >> there is some irony in mccrory being the fall guy for this because his reputation before this past year was more of a business-minded, chamber of commerce republican. he was popular. and everything that he was hoping to campaig...