Posted on 06/01/2019 3:12:54 AM PDT by cotton1706
In the course of the past few weeks, Thom Tillis has worked to solidify his standing amongst the Trump wing of the Republican Party, insofar as there is any other wing at this point. Unfortunately for him, it looks like a lost cause.
Mark Walker, the prominent conservative North Carolina Congressman, is openly weighing a primary. Some folks on the inside say he isn’t going to do it, and others say he’s 100% in. So time will tell. Either way, politicians enjoy attention and sometimes, enough chatter about a potential run leads one into the race. Mark Walker is the wildcard, and with a three-person primary for the GOP nomination, all bets are off.
Though Walker seems like the more obvious and compelling candidate to primary Tillis, Garland Tucker, the Raleigh businessman, has been mounting quite an effort.
Initially, he seemed like more of a protest primary than a viable candidate. Tucker is different than the average candidate, though. He can self-fund his primary campaign with ease. Carter Wrenn, the veteran Republican strategist advising Tucker, said that the candidate “is capable of funding several million dollars worth.” That’s not a quixotic bid, it’s a proper challenge.
Having the resources to self-fund your primary challenge is always great, but it doesn’t suggest any support beyond your own bank account.
Luckily for Tucker, he also has donor support. In the N&O article about his next fundraiser, numerous big-dollar donors that have supported Tillis in the past are listed as hosts. Though many, if not all, would support Tillis in the general election were he to win, that support is liable to extend only as far as a vote. The purse strings of the affluent Republicans in the state are tightening, at least for Tillis.
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Wonderful news.
My biggest worry is that a Senate run would destroy such a good man, and I don't mean electorally. Something about that position seems to corrupt even the very best of people.
What standing?!
Look for the spineless, weather-vane Tillis to now act like the biggest rock-ribbed conservative in the Senate. He will morph into a solid Trump supporter. Until the election, of course. He needs to go.
Both Tillis and Burr are Romney-lite.
I would take Walker or Tucker if it got rid of Tillis.
Tillis just looks smarmy. Never looked the guy. I’ll be glad if he’s gone.
“looked” = liked.
Is it? North Carolina is such a crapshoot. One minute they elect republicans the next democrats. Talk about a bipolar state.
This rube ruse has a 95.9% success rate.
Zero dumped a lot of illegals here, we have a ton of immigration because of RTP. RTP also brings a fair number of liberals from the NE looking for lower cost houseing and taxes. The idiots then vote like they did up north. Red4Ed is trying to flip red NC to at least purple. Some of the most notorious gerrymandering is here. It’s a wonder we aren’t already blue.
I have lived in NC all my life and it is pretty much a red state, except for Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and, more recently, Charlotte. We would have a Republican governor today, had Durham County not kept the polls open until they were sure that the Democrat Roy Cooper had enough votes to beat the incumbent Republican governor. I voted for Tom Tillis because he was much better than the incumbent democrat Kay Hagan, but I have been very disappointed in him! Burr has managed to coast along without making too many waves until the past two years of his obvious failure to do his job as Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. I am 69 years old so I remember days of the great Jesse Helms.
He was on my SHITLIST when I heard him say we don't need to build The Wall!!!!
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