Senator Thom Tillis

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement over the weekend that he won't seek reelection is heating up the campaign on both sides of the aisle.

The roll call of Republican senators in the U.S. Congress who have called it quits, rather than endure a political career sideways with President Donald Trump, is long, notable -- and apparently, still growing.

Senator Thom Tillis has released a map labeling nine North Carolina counties “sanctuary jurisdictions” for undocumented immigrants. Among them: Forsyth, Guilford and Watauga.

They demanded that Tillis vote against Russ Vought as President Trump’s budget director. Vought is a key architect of Project 2025.

Republican delegates in North Carolina voted Saturday at their annual convention to censure Thom Tillis, the state's senior U.S. senator, for backing LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and gun violence policies.

For a sign that North Carolina's U.S. Senate race is tight, look at the polls. Incumbent Republican Sen. Thom Tillis at one point last year had the lowest…