Republican Memphis state Sen. Brent Taylor claimed victory in the race for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District Tuesday, a district that was redrawn months before the election to give Republicans the upper hand. Taylor narrowly clinched the seat with 111,968 votes (49.63%), about 2,500 votes ahead of Democratic Memphis state Rep. Justin J. Pearson, according to final […]
(The Center Square) – Michigan voters will decide several key U.S. House races Tuesday as control of Congress hangs in the balance.
Eight days into early voting, turnout was more than 57% higher for Tennessee’s Nov. 3 midterm election than it was in 2022, according to state data. More than 665,600 people cast their ballots as of Thursday, representing 13.85% of registered voters in Tennessee. The early voter turnout still lags behind 2018’s 8-day total of 810,056. […]
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin congressman and candidate-for-governor Tom Tiffany and a pilot sustained only minor injuries after having to make an emergency water landing in a four-seat Bonanza airplane late Saturday night near Wausau.
Two veteran Republican Tennessee lawmakers from East Tennessee lost re-election bids while a first-term Democratic state House legislator from Memphis fell in last week’s primary election. Rep. John Crawford, a 10-year legislator and chairman of the State and Local Government Committee from Sullivan County, was defeated by Jessica Means by a vote count of 4,021, […]
Republican Memphis state Sen. Brent Taylor and Democratic Memphis state Rep. Justin J. Pearson will face off in the general election for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District after they won their respective primaries Thursday. Taylor defeated Chapel Hill state Rep. Todd Warner, retired U.S. Army Sergeant Jeremy Thompson and four-time congressional candidate Charlotte Bergmann. Pearson won […]
More than 75,000 Tennessee voters cast their ballots in the first two days of early voting for the August primary election, according to data released by the Tennessee Secretary of State’s office. That outpaces the same early voting period in the 2022 primary election by nearly 24,000 voters — a 47% increase. This year’s ballot […]