Tillis Declares Candidacy, Sucks Up to MAGA

 

The highly endangered Sen. Thom Tillis wasted no time in announcing his reelection bid yesterday. He went public as a candidate by way of a Senate Republican fundraiser, happening Wednesday evening in DeeCee. His first public appearance as a beseeching candidate, and how natural to do it with the crowd from whence cometh his influence, since his own North Carolina party censored him and he's widely mocked by the most vociferous of the NC MAGA adherents.

It’s not a surprise that Tillis is running for reelection, but he did tell Spectrum News in 2019 that he was “unlikely” to run for a third term.

Now he sounds up for the fight and confident, and he's pledging total allegiance to the Trump doctrine: 

“If I can’t defend myself in a primary after being a two-term member, then I’m not very good at my job,” Tillis told Spectrum News. “The real question is how well are we going to govern. How well are we going to come in and support President Trump and fulfill the promises that we’ve made. If we don’t do that, that’s going to be very, very difficult for anybody in the 2026 cycle to be successful, me or anybody else.”

Oh, you're so bought and paid for, you poor sad sack, whistling through the graveyard.