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Democrats on Tuesday picked their nominee in a particular congressional election for a vacant seat in Tennessee.
Aftyn Behn, a former healthcare neighborhood organizer and present Democrat state consultant, captured her celebration’s nomination, in line with The Related Press. The Dickson County Democratic Celebration described Behn as “our very personal AOC of TN,” in a reference to U.S. Consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in line with The Tennessee Star.
The first discipline included three state representatives and a advisor in Tennessee’s solidly crimson seventh Congressional District.
Behn will now be thought of the underdog within the Dec. 2 basic election within the race to succeed former Republican Rep. Mark Inexperienced, who resigned from workplace in June to take a non-public sector job.
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A particular election is being held in Tennessee’s seventh Congressional District to fill the seat left vacant when Republican Rep. Mark Inexperienced resigned from the U.S. Home in June to take a job within the personal sector. (AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
President Donald Trump carried the district, which is positioned in central and western Tennessee and stretches from Kentucky to Alabama, by roughly 20 factors in final 12 months’s presidential election.
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Trump’s immense political clout in Republican nomination races confronted a take a look at Tuesday in a crowded and aggressive GOP major. This after the president final week endorsed Matt Van Epp, a former commissioner of the Tennessee Division of Common Companies, and considered one of 11 names on the poll within the GOP major. Van Epp claimed victory on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Pressure One with first girl Melania Trump at Naval Station Norfolk Chambers Area in Norfolk, Va., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (Alex Brandon/AP Picture)
Republicans presently management the Home 219-213, with two vacancies: the seat in Tennessee and Texas 18th Congressional District, following the dying earlier this 12 months of Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner.
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Democrat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who received a particular congressional election in Arizona final month, has but to be sworn in.
