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The race to replace outgoing Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker is on, and Thursday's primary elections will solidify which two candidates will face each other in November. Rep. Marsha Blackburn leads the GOP field vying for the seat being vacated by retiring Corker, also a Republican.
Tennessee GOP Congressman Diane Black, NumbersUSA career grade A+ , is campaigning for the her party's nomination for governor in this very red state. Although she has been up by as much as twenty points over her closest competitor, latest polls showed the race has tightened considerably days before the August 2 primary.
Yet the Republican Senate candidate is struggling to explain President Donald Trump's nascent trade war to her state's local business community. Jack Daniel's whiskey and Jimmy Tosh's hog farm are among those warning that Trump's trade policies - and the Republican candidates who support them - are hurting the very people who backed the Republican president in the first place.
Jimmy Tosh's sprawling hog farm in rural Tennessee is an unlikely battleground in the fight for control of the U.S. Senate. Yet his 15,000 acres two hours west of Nashville showcase the practical risks of President Donald Trump's trade policies and the political threat to red-state Republican Senate candidates such as Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn.
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn pointed the finger Tuesday at "liberals" and "liberal judges," blaming them for the family separations underway at the U.S.-Mexico border. "As a mother," the Tennessee Republican said in a statement released by her office, "my heart breaks for the families who are separated at the border, but we are in this position because liberals would not pay to enforce our immigration laws or build appropriate facilities for asylum-seekers."
We've had blistering heat and humidity in much of the nation over the past week. Politics took a very brief break over the Memorial Day weekend, but with primaries and other political events this coming week, we're heading into the "dog days" or perhaps more fitting, the "dog daze" of summer.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the day after President Donald Trump traveled to Nashville to support her campaign for Senate, said Wednesday she wants to continue taking Tennessee values, as she has done throughout her career. "That is what Tennesseans want to see," the Republican candidate told Fox News' "Fox and Friends ."
President Donald Trump is resurrecting his rallying cry that Mexico will pay for his proposed border wall, despite sensitive ongoing negotiations over the future of a key North American trade deal. Acknowledging the sensitivity of the subject but abandoning caution, Trump says, "I don't want to cause a problem, but in the end, Mexico's gonna pay for the wall."
President Donald Trump gestures as he walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, as he heads to Nashville for a rally. President Donald Trump has taken the stage in Tennessee for a campaign rally to boost Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn.
For Democrats to take back control of the Senate this November, they need to pick up two seats - more if any of their senators running for reelection in Trump-friendly states lose. Take Tennessee, for example.
President Donald Trump is turning his attention to Tennessee, where he will raise money and rally supporters Tuesday in a crucial race for control of the U.S. Senate. Trump hopes to boost Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn in the open contest to replace GOP Sen. Bob Corker, who is retiring.
This pipe is one of three - and the largest - that delivers water to the 20,000 customers on the north side of Chattanooga, Red Bank and Signal Mountain.
The 110th Tennessee General Assembly Thursday filed an appeal in its lawsuit attempting to block refugee resettlement in the state. Last March a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit on multiple grounds, including the Tennessee General Assembly's lack of standing to bring the lawsuit and the state's failure to show that refugee resettlement in Tennessee violates the U.S. Constitution.
After Sen. Bob Corker said he was retiring, former Gov. Phil Bredesen -- a top Democratic recruit -- jumped into the race. Retiring Sen. Bob Corker could muster up only lukewarm praise for his party's leading contender to replace him in November's election, and again offered kind words for the main Democratic candidate.
Outgoing Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker on Sunday defended his praise of the Democrat running in the race to replace him, but said he still plans to support the Republican nominee. "He is my friend," Corker said of the candidate, former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen,to CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union."
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee on Sunday said that former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat running to replace him, is "my friend" but that he will vote for fellow Republican Marsha Blackburn this fall. Yet Mr. Corker, a Republican, had little to say in support of Ms.
Republican Sen. Bob Corker heaped lots of praise Wednesday on one of the candidates looking to succeed him when he leaves office at the end of the year. Unfortunately for Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the likely GOP nominee for the Tennessee seat, it was Democrat Phil Bredesen who was the beneficiary of Corker's remarks.
Gov. Bill Haslam is joining several other Tennessee officials voicing concerns over President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday he's concerned about additional costs to manufacturers, particularly the state's car industry.
Former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen says in his U.S. Senate campaign's second TV ad that he's "not running against Donald Trump." Bredesen is running as a moderate Democrat who will work across party lines for a red state that strongly supported Trump in 2016.
In Tennessee's U.S. Senate race, Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn and ex-Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen are concerned about President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. On Thursday, Bredesen compared broad tariffs to taking a big ax to a problem that needs a scalpel.