Tennessee Republicans had a good night, clinching both of the marquee statewide races and further dimming Democrats’ hopes of getting control of the U.S. Senate. In the governor’s race, Republican businessman Bill Lee has defeated Democrat Karl Dean, the former mayor of Nashville. Lee will be the…
Marsha Blackburn might be the most important Republican on the Senate map.
Marsha Blackburn finally seems to be pulling ahead in the Senate race.
But Phil Bredesen says he thinks the chances his party wins a Senate majority are "minuscule."
What should voters take away from a last-minute attack ad?
‘Life ain’t as simple as it used to be’—except at Dolly Parton’s amusement park.
Your must-read of the day comes from the New York Times, and it’s full of interesting details about special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. Michael Schmidt reports that Mueller has learned a lot of new information about the nature of Donald Trump’s decision-making in his first few months as…
We’re more than 11 months out from Election Day, and there are too many moving parts (changes in national environment, primary elections, possible retirements, fundraising, strategic decisions, and more) to know anything for certain.
For the last five weeks, most of the political world has been (rightly) focused on the wild race for the Alabama Senate seat that l Jeff Sessions vacated earlier this year to become attorney general. But other key races didn’t stop while Democratic senator-elect Doug Jones was beating…
After two weeks of dormancy, President Donald Trump’s ugly spat with Tennessee senator Bob Corker flared up again Tuesday after Corker insulted the president on the morning news, saying Trump was “unable to rise to the occasion” of his office and that he should “step aside” on tax reform and…
Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn announced Thursday that she would run for the Senate seat that retiring senator Bob Corker is vacating in 2018.
As Obamacare continues to face numerous setbacks, Tennessee's insurance commissioner declared on Tuesday that its exchange was "very near collapse" after she approved several large premium hikes to keep it in business.
Cleveland
Starting July 1, a new law in Tennessee will permit faculty and staff at all of the state's public universities to carry concealed firearms. Until then, the campuses remain "gun-free zones."
An audience member at a Memphis rally for Hillary Clinton Friday fainted during the Democrat's speech. After Clinton asked for someone to help the supporter, she joked, "I thought it was the talk of Republicans that might have done it."
Hillary Clinton made a statement today on the terror attack in Tennessee, which reportedly claimed the lives of four Marines. The Democratic presidential candidate compared today's attack to the racially-motivated murder of 9 Americans in a Charleston church last month:
Last November, Tennessee’s Republican governor Bill Haslam won his reelection effort resoundingly, taking 70 percent of the vote and every single county in the state. Just six weeks later, Haslam surprised nearly everyone in Tennessee’s Republican-controlled state assembly by announcing that one of…
Last week was not a great week for Princeton.
The boss was on the set of MSNBC's Morning Joe Friday to discuss Iraq, the Tea Party, and the midterm elections. Watch the videos below:
Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander is making his final pitch to primary voters with a radio ad in which the two-term Republican claims he has voted to "end amnesty" for illegal immigrants. Alexander has been hit hard on the issue of immigration by his chief GOP challenger, state representative Joe…
Nashville
Lamar Alexander, the two-term Republican senator from Tennessee, is in a strong position to win reelection this November. But only if he can get through his August 7 primary.
Tennesseans who purchased health insurance policies under Obamacare are discovering their doctors and health care providers often don't fall in their new networks. WSMV, Nashville's NBC affiliate, has the story (via the Free Beacon):
WSMV in Tennessee was unable to find a single person who successfully signed up for Obamacare:
The New York Times reports:
Mitt Romney, campaigning in Tennessee today, recited lyrics to "The Ballad of Davy Crockett."
Outgoing Democratic governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee argues in the Wall Street Journal that health care will force people out of their employer-based health insurance plans and into government-subsidized "market exchanges." Here's a snippet: