{"id":145621,"date":"2025-04-12T14:55:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=145621"},"modified":"2025-04-12T14:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T14:55:39","slug":"former-rep-wiley-nickel-is-launching-a-senate-bid-in-north-carolina-giving-hope-to-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=145621","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Former Rep. Wiley Nickel is launching a Senate bid in North Carolina \u2014\u00a0giving hope to Democrats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/09\/congress\/wiley-nickel-senate-north-carolina-00279297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;Former Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel is kicking off a bid to challenge North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attorney and former Obama administration staffer, who served one term in the House before redistricting made his seat much redder, is getting ready to nationalize the race by hitching Tillis to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe got to stand up to Donald Trump and Thom Tillis, over and over, has been the one that has voted for the Trump agenda. He\u2019s been the deciding vote on important confirmation after confirmation,\u201d Nickel said in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s the first major Democratic candidate to kick off a bid for what is likely to be one of the few competitive Senate seats this cycle. Nickel has floated a Senate campaign since announcing he wouldn\u2019t run for the House again. He was a member of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition during his House tenure, though he said he eschewed labels as he launched his bid for the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democrats haven\u2019t held a Senate seat in North Carolina since Kay Hagan lost in 2014, but they are optimistic about their chances this time. Vice President Kamala Harris lost the state in 2024 even as Democrats won the races for governor, attorney general and secretary of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNorth Carolina is trending the right way,\u201d Nickel said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: &#8220;Former Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel is kicking off a bid to challenge North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. The attorney and former Obama administration staffer, who served one term in the House before redistricting made his seat much redder, is getting ready to nationalize the race by hitching Tillis to President Donald Trump. \u201cWe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145622,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145621\/revisions\/145622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}