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Thom Tillis: “The executive branch, with its outsized influence, threatening people in primaries, basically degrading their…”

On the recordOctober 5, 2026
The executive branch, with its outsized influence, threatening people in primaries, basically degrading their independence or eliminating it all together, then we become a one-institution country, which is exactly what we fought a Revolutionary War over.
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Thom Tillis
Republican · North Carolina

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Discussing concerns about authoritarianism.

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