Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said a win over challenger Cal Cunningham would be a “firewall against [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer” becoming Senate majority leader.
Tillis has been running close yet consistently behind Cunningham — whose campaign of late has been rocked by revelations of an extramarital affair — in polling throughout the election cycle.
With a 53-47 lead and tough races in Arizona, Maine, Colorado, Iowa, and North Carolina, a win by the Tarheel state senator and at least one of the others could allow Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to keep the gavel by a horse’s hair.
“We’re gonna win on Tuesday, the president’s gonna win on Tuesday,” Tillis told Fox News’ “Justice with Judge Jeanine” during a Saturday night interview.
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“I think there were a lot of polls earlier that always trend in the benefit for Democrats,” he continued, adding that similar polling failed to predict his victory in 2014.