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What’s going on with Senator Tillis saying he probably won’t back Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney for D.C.? — 16 Comments

  1. All 10 reasons you posted.
    Another reason why the Republican Party is called the Stupid Party.
    Will the other DemRep Collins and Murkowski vote for him?
    Not sure how the WOW got there, I am really SHIREHOME.

  2. Mike Benz with a salient point:

    People are not appreciating the magnitude of the Ed Martin situation. The prosecutor is on top of the FBI. He runs all DC criminal investigations. He is the choke point for DC’s worst secrets. If Ed Martin is blocked, and Boasberg picks, Trump 2.0’s momentum is totally paralyzed.

    https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1919831446950179284

  3. I’ll go with a variation on 3) and what Nonapod said.

    My take is that he is perhaps pragmatic, but scared. He is publicly virtue signaling, because a) he knows he not going to magically make his constituents believe the truths about J6, and b) he’s worried about re-election. It’s not that he doesn’t know the facts about J6, but rather that his electorate doesn’t.

  4. Tillis has been in the Senate for a sufficiently long period of time (10 years) to have come to believe that the way things were (“You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.”) is the way things still are. He wants to get scratched, and in the right places. He’ll come around, I predict, once his itch is duly assuaged with the proper amount of green salve. By the way, I prefer Mel Tills.

  5. Tillis is there to represent North Carolina business interests. Everything he does is in reference to that. Which is part of why he’s a big open borders, pro-amnesty voice, by choice. Circumstances, plus the cold fact of voter hostility, have forced him to work with Trump, but given his choice he’d pass an immigration amnesty.

    Right now, Tillis and some other GOP Senators are testing the water, seeing how much maneuvering room he has to oppose Trump, and how much ‘cover’ the establishment can give him.

    Hopefully he’ll discover the answer is ‘not much’, to both questions

  6. North Carolina resident here. Tillis has been a disappointment since he became a Senator. He talks like a conservative when running for election and then becomes a moderate squish as soon as the election is over. In addition to this Martin stance, he’s threatening to hold up the reconciliation bill unless the “green” giveaways in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act are retained.

    He will get not one dime from me for his re-election campaign, and probably not my vote, unless the Democrat opponent is so awful I have to vote for Tillis — which is what has happened the last two times.

  7. Kate,

    Isn’t NC turning purple? Hence Tillis talking out of both sides. Any chance of a primary challenge?

  8. Utterly unconstitutional to have article III judges appointing executive branch subordinates. They all serve at Trump’s pleasure so fire anyone appointed unconditionally.

  9. As the famous meme goes, why not both – stupid and selfish? His career is somewhat astonishing in light of his upbringing and an associate degree (the bachelor’s is from what is functionally the night school of UM).

  10. It’s up to Republican officialdom in North Carolina to tell him that if he sabotages a key appointment, there will be a primary.

  11. “Not sure how the WOW got there, I am really SHIREHOME.”

    It’s an AI assessment of your wisdom. You pegged their meter. 😉

  12. There’s already one declared primary candidate against Tillis, but I don’t think he’s got the kind of name recognition needed. Tillis took out a primary opponent quite ruthlessly a few years ago with a successful smear campaign. Tillis has already been reprimanded by the NC State Republican Convention. The problem with the idea that he’s “triangulating” to get Dem votes is that Dems are going to vote for anyone with a “D” behind his name. Tillis is playing with fire by failing to represent the Rs who put him in the Senate.

  13. And, physicsguy, I wouldn’t say we’re turning purple. Rather, Republicans have failed to run good candidates for statewide office (governor, attorney general). I was sure Mark Robinson would get creamed in the general election and I voted for another man in the primary. Sadly, Robinson won and I was right — he got creamed.

  14. Kate. That’s good to hear. Several of my lefty acquaintances are in the RDU area which from their indications is a pretty blue, and maybe a bit even further left.

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