Don Brown, Republican candidate for Senate in North Carolina, told Newsmax on Wednesday that his campaign to replace retiring Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., will “put America first” and that he will be a “MAGA candidate.”

Tillis announced at the end of June that he would not seek reelection in 2026 after he came under fire from President Donald Trump for voting against the wide-ranging tax and spending bill that Republicans passed in the first week of July.

Brown said on “Wake Up America” that he “would have supported the bill” that Tillis voted against if he had been in the Senate, saying, “There are too many important things that we have to accomplish.”

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