WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Thom Tillis has unseated U.S. Senator Kay Hagan in North Carolina, CBS projected on Tuesday, claiming an important prize for Republicans as they gained control of the Senate.
In the most expensive race in the country, Tillis, 54, the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, painted Hagan as a rubber stamp for unpopular President Barack Obama.
Hagan, a first-term Democratic incumbent, criticized the North Carolina Legislature's rightward shift under Tillis.
(Reporting by Marina Lopes and Susan Cornwell; Editing by Peter Cooney)