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Check your privilege, GOP establishment
Every Republican can be happy that there will not be a runoff election in North Carolina’s Senate race. While not all are thrilled that the nominee is state House Speaker Thom Tillis, the moderate favorite of the GOP establishment, his convincing win shows party unity and avoids an expensive, damaging 10-week runoff election. Democrats, meanwhile, can be uniformly glum that the GOP settled on a nominee quickly and one who sounds an awful lot like Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who has twice won handily in the light-red state. But rather...
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Tillis wins Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in North Carolina
The establishment wing of the Republican Party scored a major victory in North Carolina Tuesday when state House Speaker Thom Tillis won the party's nomination for U.S. Senate, turning back tea party challengers who threatened to complicate the GOP's effort to unseat Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) in a key midterm battleground.
"The party has triangulated pretty well so far and this was the first test," said Michael Steele, a former Republican National Committee chairman. "Tillis and his people have worked hard to control how this plays out. But they...
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Early Primary Results Favor GOP Leaders' Candidates
Republican Party leaders and their allies in the business community notched wins Tuesday in a series of competitive primaries in North Carolina and Ohio, an early sign they are gaining the upper hand over conservative activists ahead of other key 2014 primaries.
In North Carolina, Republican primary voters picked House Speaker Thom Tillis as their nominee to square off against Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in November, thanks in part to millions of dollars in last-minute a
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