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Republican senator for North Carolina
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Tillis votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Tillis’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Tillis votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Tillis’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-1.3% | 47.6% | -23.5 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Tillis vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 22, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (68-29) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No |  | 77.6% | -77.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 56.7% | +43.3 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 84.3% | +15.7 |
| Nov. 29, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (61-36) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.4% | +24.6 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 23.3% | +76.7 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.1% | +13.9 |
| Aug. 7, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.1% | -56.1 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 53.9% | +46.1 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 74.0% | +26.0 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.9% | +20.1 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 92.4% | -92.4 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 57.8% | +42.2 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 27.4% | +72.6 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.8% | -62.8 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.6% | +23.4 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 36.1% | +63.9 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 74.9% | -74.9 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 77.6% | -77.6 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.5% | +14.5 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 56.5% | +43.5 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 53.6% | +46.4 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 51.4% | -51.4 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 49.7% | +50.3 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 45.9% | +54.1 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.1% | -56.1 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 46.5% | +53.5 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 72.8% | -72.8 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.0% | +18.0 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 57.5% | -57.5 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.4% | +23.6 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.2% | -56.2 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.8% | +21.2 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.1% | -56.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.0% | -56.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 74.9% | +25.1 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 70.9% | -70.9 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 57.8% | -57.8 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 61.6% | -61.6 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Thom Tillis's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 98.2% | ||
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 65.2% | -65.2 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.0% | +18.0 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 59.3% | -59.3 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.1% | +10.9 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 68.4% | -68.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.7% | +20.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.9% | +18.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 75.7% | -75.7 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.7% | -56.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.3% | +7.7 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.4% | +19.6 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 74.8% | -74.8 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.5% | +14.5 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.0% | +7.0 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.0% | +6.0 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Thom Tillis's Vote: No | support | No | | 68.1% | -68.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.0% | +9.0 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.5% | +10.5 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Thom Tillis's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.5% | +6.5 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Thom Tillis's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 98.6% | ||
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Thom Tillis's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 71.8% | ||
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Thom Tillis's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 93.0% | ||
| Average | 47.6% | 71.1% | -23.5 | |||
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