Conservative icon’s PAC thargeting Thom Thilli$
If you’ve been around the conservative movement for a while (like I have), the name Richard A. Viguerie is well-known to you. For six decades, he’s helped movement conservatives wield direct-response marketing and other modern marketing techniques to their electoral advantage. Viguerie played a big part in conservative success stories that include the late Jesse Helms and Ronald Reagan. (He was also a key player in Trump 2016 and Trump 2024.)
Now, Viguerie has set his sights on our very own Thom Tillis. Viguerie’s PAC, Fed UP has our senior senator in its cross-hairs. Here’s Viguerie announcing his PAC’s “Tank Tillis” project:
Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of FedUp PAC, known as the funding father of the modern-day Conservative Movement, and author of Go Right – Go Big announced today a bold new initiative to recruit and support a challenger to incumbent Senator Thom Tillis in North Carolina’s 2026 Republican primary election.
“Thom Tillis personally tanked Ed Martin, President Trump’s handpicked nominee for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and now conservatives are going to tank him. Conservatives are frustrated by Tillis’s repeated betrayals on border security, spending, and judicial appointments, and we say it’s time for a Senator from North Carolina who puts America First.
North Carolina and the American people deserve a true conservative in the U.S. Senate who supports President Trump’s agenda—not a go-along, get-along career politician who continues to betray the President and conservatives,” said Viguerie.
The initiative will focus on candidate recruitment, voter education, and engagement.
“The message is clear: Thom Tillis no longer represents conservative North Carolinians and the American people who want to make America great again” concluded Viguerie.
This bold initiative should be a warning to other “RINO” Republicans who choose to side with Democrats in Congress to “TANK” President Trump’s agenda and betray the values and policies supported by conservatives.
View FedUp PAC’s social media post that outlines the “TANK TILLIS” Project HERE or go to https://www.feduppac.org/tank-tillis. […]
It was only a matter of time before PACs and Independent Expenditure Committees began popping up to go after RINO incumbent Thom TIllis. FoxNews’ popular cameo guest John Rich has also promised to help do fundraisers for whomever poses a serious challenge to Tillis. No amount of fundraising or celebrity endorsements will save our senior senator. Stick a fork in Thom, he’s done. The ‘perfect storm’ for the 2026 Senate Race in NC- (1) Our feckless (current) NCGOP leadership; (2) the fact Trump isn’t on the ballot, and (3) the most reviled incumbent candidate NC has ever put up for re-election. NC Democrats must be salivating right now.
Filing is six months away. Time grows short.