On Face the Nation, Sen. Thom Tillis is asked how his party overcomes polling that shows 83% of voters see corruption as a concern in their vote, and see it as more of an issue with Republicans. He says the oligarch paid "tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars" and has gone on delegations with Putin to Beijing. Tillis says letting things like that happen feeds the corruption narrative, and "whether it's legal or not, it's irrelevant."
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- Thom Tillis
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- interview - Face the Nation
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83 % see it as a concern in determining their vote. And they see it as more of an issue with Republicans. How does your party overcome this perception? Well, I think a part of what we have to do is be open about what we've done right and where we've kind of skated into the gray area. I'll give you a good example of why I think I think maybe people feel that way. You can't have an oligarch pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for the president's son's wedding and not make it look odd, particularly when that oligarch is aligned with Putin and has gone on delegations with Putin to Beijing. That's just one example. What we need to do is learn the rule of figure out where the line is and take a step back. Or American people are already predisposed to assume Democrats and Republicans are corrupt. We're just feeding that narrative and we let things like that happen. but whether it's legal or not, it's irrelevant. Yeah.
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