BuzzFeed - Thom Tillis says he wants to be an âindependentâ Senator and wonât commit to supporting Mitch McConnell for Republican leader. AP Photo/Gerry Broome, Pool WILSON, N.C. â Thom Tillis, the Republican candidate for Senate in North Carolina, wouldn't commit to supporting Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, if both of them win this fall. "I'm not going to look past the most important election and that's the election in November," he told BuzzFeed News on Saturday. "I think there are a number of people in Republican caucus who would be great leaders and it would be great for them to be in that position." He may not be looking past election day, but Tillis did try and lay out part of his vision for the Senate should Republicans take the majority. He is locked in a tight race against the Democratic incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan and considers his race the real majority-making state for Republicans. "I've met with probably 30 members of the sitting Republican s
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