Romney rallying with Tillis in North Senate campaign
RALEIGH -- Mitt Romney's campaign this fall for Republican gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidates is bringing him to North Carolina to support Thom Tillis' bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.
The 2012 GOP presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor attended a rally with Tillis late Wednesday afternoon at a Raleigh sheet-metal fabrication plant.
Romney already has said he's not running for president in 2016 but is traveling around the country critiquing President Barack Obama's policies while putting his seal of approval on Republican candidates. In the past week he's visited candidates in New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Nebraska and Kansas.
Hagan and Tillis are in a close, expensive race that will help decide whether Republicans take the Senate majority in the last two years of Obama's presidency.
President Bill Clinton will be campaigning for Hagan this Friday in Raleigh at Broughton High School.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
