RINO Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced Sunday that he will not seek reelection, just one day after voting against President Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful bill—a move that has placed him squarely at odds with the conservative base and the America First agenda.
Tillis, one of only two GOP senators to oppose the bill on Saturday, cited “cuts to healthcare programs” as the reason for his vote. But many conservatives saw it differently: another establishment Republican unwilling to support much-needed reforms and reductions to bloated entitlement programs.
In a carefully worded statement drenched in political platitudes, Tillis portrayed himself as a victim of a partisan climate that punishes “bipartisanship” and “independent thinking.”
“In Washington over the last few years, it’s become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species,” Tillis wrote, in what many interpreted as a veiled jab at the conservative populist shift within the GOP.
“Sometimes those bipartisan initiatives got me into trouble with my own party, but I wouldn’t have changed a single one,” he added—essentially bragging about siding with Democrats on key issues throughout his Senate tenure.
President Trump didn’t hold