The surprise announcement comes one day after Tillis opposed a massive bill for Trump’s agenda in the Senate.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., announced Sunday that he would not run for re-election, one day after he drew Donald Trump’s ire for opposing the party’s sweeping domestic policy package.
The surprise decision opens up seat in battleground North Carolina that was already set to be one of the most hotly contested races of the 2026 midterms.
Republicans are now forced to scramble to find a replacement for Tillis in a race that is a top target for Democrats in next year’s midterms.
Another example that loyalty only flows one way when it comes to Donald Trump, and he will gladly have you excommunicated the nanosecond you become inconvenient or dare to criticize him in any way.
Yet nobody in the party will learn a damn thing, and about a million or so people who somehow still think that they’ll be somehow immune from the same treatment are already lining up to take Tillis’ place.
Seriously. Rudy Giuliani. Mike Lindell. Liz Cheney. Michael Cohen. Prominent, life-long Republicans who dedicated their lives, their fortunes, and their careers, and they’ve all ended up ruined, disgraced, and discarded. And that doesn’t count the literal dozens of prominent Republicans that have been forced out of politics because they didn’t suck up to Trump hard enough or voted against him that one time. How can you see a literal cemetery of people that have been sacrificed at the altar of Trump and say to yourself “Yes, I’d like to be the next in line.” How do you not see all of that and think that somehow, you’re the one who’s going to magically be immune? I just don’t get it.