Thom Tillis announced Sunday that he will not run for the U.S. Senate next year, a day for North Carolina Republicans to oppose opposition. Donald TrumpThe signature of domestic legislation prompted the president to launch threatening and insulting attacks and pledged to support the main challenger to defeat him in his party’s 2026 primary election.
“In the past few years, it has become increasingly obvious that leaders willing to accept a two-party system, compromise and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species,” Tillis said in a family. statement Send it to reporters.
“As many of my colleagues have noticed over the past year, sometimes even joked, I’m not totally excited about running,” he added. “It’s not a difficult choice and I’m not going to seek reelection.”
Shortly after Tillis refused to support massive tax and spending cuts Senate Procedural Voting On Saturday, Trump attacked the Senator on his social media platform Truth Society.
The President accused Tillis of grandly “promoting some publicity for himself for his own possible but very difficult reelection.” He also wrote that Tillis made “a big mistake against the great people in America and North Carolina!”
In the subsequent Truth Society article, Trump said he would meet with potential candidates to challenge him in the Republican primary in the battlefield state.
“Many people want to stand up” against Tillis, Trump wrote on Saturday night. “I will meet them in the next few weeks to find someone who will correctly represent the great people of North Carolina and the United States of America.”
Before Tillis announced his decision to retire from the Senate on Sunday, Trump continued to attack him on social media, writing: “Tillis is a speaker and complainer, not an actor! He is worse than Rand’Fauci’s “Paul”!”
Tillis is one of two senators Republicanstogether with Rand Paul of Kentucky, vote on the bill that the president advocates. During Trump’s first president, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was once a key adviser to the Covid-19 pandemic, whose support for lockdowns and vaccines made him a hate figure at Trump’s base.
Trump’s attack took several hours Tillis said in a statement He “cannot support” the current form of the President’s Spending Act. He noted that Medicaid said “will lose tens of thousands of dollars in funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities.”
A source “close to the Trump family” in Tillis in the 2026 Republican Senate primary Tell NBC News reporters The president’s daughter woman, North Carolina native Lara Trump, “strongly considers jumping in the game.”
Tillis’s Retirement,,,,, A moderate swing state could make it easier for the Democrats to reverse their seats in 2026, with some hoping to encourage former Gov. Roy Cooper to play.
There may be similar dynamics in Omaha, Nebraska next year, Republican congressman and frequent Trump critic Don Bacon It is reportedly decided He will not run for re-election.
Trump supports the main challenges facing Republicans who clash with him. Notably, he recognized Harriet Hageman’s successful push for Wyoming’s former Republican Congressman Liz Cheney, who served on a House Congressional committee that investigated Trump supporters’ deadly U.S. Capitol attacks after losing the 2020 presidential election.
Trump’s team also recently formed a team to launch a group to Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, who opposed the U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear website on June 22. Massi also ally with California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna to introduce war power resolutions to “ban participation in Iran” and Trump’s “big and beautiful bill.”
Chris Lacivita, a senior political adviser to Trump, confirmed that he and another Trump adviser, Tony Fabrizio, will be in charge of an anti-Massi super political action committee (PAC).
Trump’s criticism of Tillis came after the Senate voted 51-49 for a motion to propose a budget bill. Now, it must clear the formal Senate vote and be returned to the House of Commons for approval – Trump hopes to do that by the July 4 holiday.
The legislation is a filler barrier to Republican priorities — permanent tax breaks from Trump’s first presidency and eliminate taxes related to tips, partly paid for in cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and green energy investments. The bill also includes $17.5 billion in immigration enforcement funds to implement the president’s massive eviction program.
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