**Tillis needs to be primaried and replaced by someone who can win. Otherwise Roy Cooper will be representing NC in the Senate.**
Points to Lara.
“Points to Lara.”
Lara Trump is not a resident of North Carolina, she is a resident of Florida. North Carolina had the unpleasant experience of Elizabeth Dole (Bob Dole’s wife) being a one term carpetbagger GOP Senator. She used her mother’s home to establish “residence” in the state, she and Bob didn’t even own a home in the state. Once elected, she rarely came to the state, preferring the Washington DC social and political life with her husband at the Watergate in DC to spending time with the citizens of NC.
If Lara and Eric Trump move to the North Carolina, buy a real home, enroll their children in schools in the state, and relocate their businesses to the state, I might. consider voting for her. However if she, like Elizabeth Dole, uses an address of convenience in the state for sham residency, and spends her time in DC, Florida, and New York I have no interest in her representing me.
Elizabeth Dole ran for reelection to the Senate and lost to a virtually unknown Democrat. After six years in the Senate representing the RINO wing of the national Republican Party, and not the people of North Carolina, even conservative Republican voters were fed up with having a faux Senator.
If the GOP is serious about keeping both NC Senate seats, the answer is to find a conservative North Carolina resident businessman like Ted Budd (our recently elected GOP Senator) to replace Tillis. Thune and McConnell should persuade Tillis to retire in 2026 to a corporate board seat or consulting position like our previous RINO Senator Richard Burr who Ted Budd replaced.
Roy Cooper is going to be hard for any Republican to beat in 2026. The GOP replacement for Tillis need to start campaigning now!