Tag: US Senate

#NCSEN26: Poll Time! (Whatley v. Cooper)

Posted on August 10, 2025 by Brant Clifton

The drive-bys are already fast-forwarding to the general election for our soon-to-be-vacant US Senate seat. There is STILL a primary to be held in March. Nevertheless, CBS17 out of Raleigh

Trump getting misled by supposed allies? (You don’t say!)

Posted on August 2, 2025August 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

US senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said out-loud the other day something we’ve contended for a while: Donald Trump is getting some bad advice from people he thinks are his friends.

Internal polling: Tillis losing to DEM by NINE, generic GOPer outperforming Tillis vs. Cooper

Posted on July 31, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Ah, so it WAS after all about more than just spending more time with Susie and the kids. We found this little nugget buried at the end of a WRAL

Free passes, patty-cake, Me-Tooism from NCGOP got Roy Cooper where he is today

Posted on July 30, 2025July 31, 2025 by Brant Clifton

It’s kind of strange to finally hear the Raleigh Republican establishment speak up about Roy Cooper. He’s survived 37 years in state elected office with nary a scratch. Now

WHAT(ley) ???

Posted on July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Given what we found on X last night, we were expecting much different news than what we got hit with. THAT is congressman Pat Harrigan and his wife visiting The

The Senate race name game

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Brant Clifton

I’m mainly glad the name Tillis will be gone SOON. From our vantage point here at Haymaker HQ, we see and hear a lot of things. Some are funny and

Thommy Boy’s nausea-inducing “Tha-Tha” Thour

Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Boy, those bridges are burning. Thom Tillis — after all those years of thumbing his nose at us and generally behaving like an anus — is doing his damnedest to

Thommy Boy’s Themper Thantrum and the Medicaid Scam

Posted on July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Our senior US senator is all over the national news boo-hooing about the sick state of politics, how he’s tired of it all, and how he wants to spend more

Tillis works with GOP’s left wing to foil Trump efforts to end green energy subsidies

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

Here’s yet one more example of our senior US senator standing in the way of the Trump agenda: Phasing out Biden-era green energy tax credits is dividing Senate Republicans as

Tillis gives cover to Dem senator’s screaming attack on Homeland Security Secretary Noem

Posted on June 21, 2025June 21, 2025 by Brant Clifton

In the real world, somebody like Thom Tillis would be quietly escorted out the front door of his workplace by security with his belongings in a bank box. Tillis originally