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Senate GOP not happy with Trump beatdown of Tillis
« on: Today at 06:58:20 am »
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5388826-thom-tillis-retirement-trump-senate/

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Republican senators aren’t happy about how President Trump treated Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), whom the president blasted last week on social media after Tillis said he wouldn’t vote for Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”

Tillis is highly regarded among colleagues as a team player focused on getting results, and many Republicans thought he would have had the best chance of keeping the North Carolina Senate seat in GOP hands.

Senate Republicans are expressing disappointment over Tillis’s sudden retirement announcement, which came after Trump tore into him on social media and publicly solicited other Republicans to run for North Carolina’s Senate seat in 2026. 

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The lawmaker said Tillis was in regular touch with Trump and Senate GOP leadership to express his concerns about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Trump signed into law July 4.

“He was talking to him the whole time,” the source said of the conversations that were ongoing between Tillis and the president up until the moment Trump ripped Tillis publicly.

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A Senate Republican strategist said GOP senators are unnerved by Trump blowing up a vulnerable GOP incumbent over a policy dispute when Tillis has otherwise been a loyal teammate — helping to confirm key members of Trump’s Cabinet, such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and taking tough votes to pass Trump’s agenda in the president’s first term.

“He is a great fit for his state and was looking out for the best interests of North Carolina, so to see him pushed aside like that is unfortunate. And, frankly, he deserves better than that,” the strategist said of Tillis.


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This is how Trump wins battles but then loses wars.
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Re: Senate GOP not happy with Trump beatdown of Tillis
« Reply #1 on: Today at 08:41:17 am »
Maybe someone needs to fly down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring.

It's Trump's Republican Party now.  He'll kick some @$$ to keep his herd of cats in line.
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Re: Senate GOP not happy with Trump beatdown of Tillis
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Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on Today at 08:41:17 am
Maybe someone needs to fly down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring.

It's Trump's Republican Party now.  He'll kick some @$$ to keep his herd of cats in line.

Well, some of those cats may loses their seats in 2026 by kissing his ring too much, at which point Trump will then be in trouble.
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