SCORECARD · THOM TILLIS in office since 2021-01-03

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Republican U.S. Senate · NC full conduct profile →
88/100
CRITICAL CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
95
Connection density20%
90
Donor influence10%
94
Fact density10%
80
Constituency deviation5%
46
Voting misalignment5%
0

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 6

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 1

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

12.5% of 8 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • S. Amdt. 667 to H.R. 1628 ↗ YEA 2017-07-28
    Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017 (ACA 'skinny repeal' — would have ended the individual mandate and employer mandates, leaving 16 million more uninsured)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Tillis voted three times to repeal the ACA, including the 'skinny repeal' that the CBO projected would cause 16 million to lose coverage. Only three Republicans voted against it (Collins, Murkowski, McCain). North Carolina has since expanded Medicaid to 673,000 residents, and Tillis cited protecting that expansion as his reason for opposing H.R. 1 in 2025. His 2017 repeal votes would have eliminated the very Medicaid infrastructure he defended in 2025.
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03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 4

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • reversal SCORE 90
    Tillis blocked Garland in 2016 by arguing voters should choose the next president to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, then voted to confirm Barrett eight days before the 2020 presidential election. PolitiFact rated this a 'Full Flop' — a complete reversal on the same policy question of whether election-year vacancies should be filled.
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Tillis personally solicited damning testimony from Hegseth's ex-sister-in-law, telling her it would move three votes including his own, then cast the decisive 50th vote to confirm Hegseth after overnight pressure including a Trump primary threat. The WSJ's 24-hour narrative and NC Newsline described it as a 'new standard for disingenuous flipflops.'
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Tillis publicly staked out a principled constitutional objection to Trump's emergency declaration in a high-profile Washington Post op-ed, then voted to support the same declaration less than a month later. Multiple North Carolina news outlets labeled it an 'Olympic gold flip-flop,' and it triggered a primary challenge from conservative businessman Garland Tucker.
  • position_evolution SCORE 60
    Tillis voted for the 2017 tax cuts that added $1.5 trillion to the national debt, benefiting corporations and high earners, but voted against the 2025 H.R. 1 in part because of deficit concerns. However, his 2025 opposition was driven more by Medicaid cuts affecting North Carolina than by a philosophical shift on deficit spending, making this a distinct policy calculus rather than a direct reversal.
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

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CitationGoblin House. "Thom Tillis — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 16, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/thom-tillis.

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