Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina won’t run in 2026 after opposing Trump’s bill
Washington (AP) – Republican Sen. Thom Tillis North Carolina said that on Sunday, President Donald Trump announced the opposition that he would not be re -elected next year. Tax Games and Expenditure Details Package Due to the decrease in health care programs.
The decision will create a political opportunity for the democrats who want to support their numbers in the 2026 midterm elections and for a long time in a state controversial battlefield. Republicans have an advantage of 53-47 in the Senate.
Tillis, who will be ready for a third period, said that he was proud of his career in public service, but accepted his parties a difficult political environment for those who are hive and lonely.
“For the last few years, in Washington, the leaders who are willing to adopt bilaterality, compromise and show that independent thought has become a extinct species are becoming increasingly clear,” he said.
“Sometimes these two -party initiatives had me with my own party, but I wouldn’t change one one.”
In social tasks, Tillis played Tillis because he was one of the two Republican senators who voted against the huge bill on Saturday night.
He accused Republican President Tillis of introducing “No” vote and threatened to campaign against him. The Republican President accused Tillis of not doing anything to help his founders after last year. destructive flood.
“Tillis is a speaker and complaining, not a constructor, Tr Trump wrote.
Tillis came to the forefront in North Carolina when IBM leaving IBM consultant as a member of the second term state house and led GOP’s efforts to recruit and collect donations in the room for the 2010 elections. For the first time in 140 years, Republicans won the majority in the Assembly and the Senate.
Tillis was later elected as the President of the State Assembly, and when he worked for four years, he helped to enforce conservative policies on taxes, arms rights, regulations and abortion. Furthermore, a state helped pushing a constitutional referendum to ban homosexual marriage, which was approved by voters in 2012 but ultimately hit by the courts in contradiction with the Constitution.
In 2014, Tillis, Democratic Sen. After defeating Kay Hagan in a narrow way, he helped the US Senate to control the GOP.
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Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro and Joey Cappelletti in Washington and North Carolina, Raleight, contributed to this report.
