Thom Tillis
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Sep 11, 2026
Ali VelshiHOST
But Roy Cooper says voters should not take his expected victory for granted.
Ali VelshiHOST
As Democrats fight to flip the Senate, one of the key races they're counting on is North Carolina, where two candidates are competing to replace the retiring Republican Tom Tillis.
Ali VelshiHOST
The state's former Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, is facing off against the former chair of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley.
Ali VelshiHOST
Cooper's ahead in most polling, with an average 8.3 point lead against Whatley across multiple polls.
Roy CooperGUEST
They were the ones that passed this bill that ended up ripping health care away from people under the Affordable Care Act because they pulled the rug out from under them with the subsidies that they were getting before.
Roy CooperGUEST
They're the ones that passed this bill that's going to cut Medicaid after the election.
Roy CooperGUEST
And in fact, the current Republican senator sitting in this seat that I'm running for, Tom Tillis, stood up on the floor of the Senate and said, I can't vote for this bill because I don't know what I tell the people in North Carolina who have health care now because we came together in a bipartisan agreement to expand Medicaid to get 735,000 people health insurance.
Roy CooperGUEST
They're the ones that passed this bill that gave the tax breaks to the billionaires and the very wealthiest and pennies to everybody else.
speaker_2HOST
Away from the rhetoric, two long-running Washington storylines showed no movement this week.
speaker_2HOST
Republican criticism of War Secretary Pete Hegseth from Senators Tom Tillis and Don Bacon has not produced any new development, and the roughly $70 billion emergency defense spending request remains stalled in the Senate without a resolution date.
speaker_2HOST
Separately, the White House said this week that it will move to ban imports of a range of Canadian goods, including motorcycles, later this month, a minor but notable escalation in trade tensions running alongside the Iran conflict.
speaker_2HOST
Financial markets absorb a second consecutive day of sharply rising oil prices on Thursday.
Matt WalshHOST
I do think this is all just coming down to the ethics language, though.
Matt WalshHOST
So Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina said it doesn't look good now, and basically that the White House is going to need to bridge the gap on the ethics language.
Matt WalshHOST
So to hear a Republican, albeit one that doesn't like Trump, come out and say that, it does feel like the ball might be in the White House's court right now to cave a little bit on this ethics provision.
Nick CarterHOST
Yeah, it's not trending well, at least from my perspective.
Tony KennettHOST
And it's because Thune can't put pressure on anybody.
Tony KennettHOST
Now, again, is it Republicans' fault as a voter base as well? Yeah, I mean, again, when you have Republicans who won't get rid of John Curtis in Utah, and again, now finally getting rid of Cornyn in Texas, but also, again, Bill Cassidy throwing a fit, Tom Tillis, and good Lord, North Carolina is just a disaster.
Tony KennettHOST
I mean, that kind of stuff, when you have Senate leadership that can't really move anybody, that's a problem.
Tony KennettHOST
So either you have to decide that you're going to put the fire under some people, like withholding campaign funds from Susan Collins until she, you know, signs on to getting rid of the filibuster, you know, some Save America Act endorsing stuff.
Jack CocchiarellaHOST
It is truly an embarrassing answer about an embarrassing guy.
Kristen WelkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Senator, very quickly before I let you go, as you know, your Republican colleague, Senator Tom Tillis, is calling for Pete Hegseth to be replaced.
Kristen WelkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Do you still have confidence in Secretary Hegseth?
John KennedySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, it's not my place to have confidence in him.
Joe ConchaHOST
But the point is that he can't seem to get this thing passed.
Joe ConchaHOST
Now, does he have the votes? Is he smart enough to know that you don't bring something for a vote when you don't have the votes from people like Tom Tillis, who is a prick? North Carolina Senator Republican who hates Trump, therefore will not support the Save America Act because he doesn't like Trump.
Joe ConchaHOST
Then Mitch McConnell, who on Fox this weekend.
Joe ConchaHOST
I had enough.
Joe ConchaHOST
I'm sorry.
Joe ConchaHOST
It's not just Democrats who are opposing him.
Joe ConchaHOST
It's several Republicans, Murkowski, Collins, obviously Tom Tillis, North Carolina, and then the aforementioned Mitch McConnell.
Joe ConchaHOST
Now, Collins, I get because she's in a purple state and she has to win that election.
Joel BrownHOST
The gloves are off in the race for North Carolina's U.S. Senate seat.
Joel BrownHOST
Roy Cooper firing back at Michael Watley as the fight to replace Tom Tillis heats up with the midterms on the horizon.
Joel BrownHOST
The former governor hit the campaign trail in Goldsboro yesterday, firing back after Watley went after his record on crime at the Republican midterm convention.
Joel BrownHOST
Cooper not holding back.
Steve DanielsHOST
Last night in Dallas, Whatley used his time on the convention stage to go after Cooper's record.
Steve DanielsHOST
Whatley is hoping to keep the seat, being vacated by retiring Senator Tom Tillis.
Steve DanielsHOST
He's hoping to keep that in Republican hands.
Steve DanielsHOST
He praised Republican tax cuts while accusing Cooper and Democrats of raising the cost of health care and being soft on crime.
Rich BarrisGUEST
He could have buried John Thune and everybody else with him right there.
Rich BarrisGUEST
Instead, he went along to get along, and it led to these little pains in the butts like Cassidy and Tillis poking and poking and poking and being the thorn in his side.
Rich BarrisGUEST
Well, now
Owen ShroyerHOST
it's an all-out war with them.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
He even, he is saying this ain't going to be done before that, which I think anybody who's followed this understood because the IRGC, this is the IRGC strategy now is to damage Donald Trump to the point where the war has to end by way of Congress.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
By the way, Tom Tillis coming out and saying that his war authorization vote is going to be different.
Justin Robert YoungHOST
Because we are now past six months from when, or 90 days, rather, from when Donald Trump said the war was back on.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Interesting, interesting, interesting.
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