Tennessee Republicans remain low-key on call for vaccination
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks a COVID-19 vaccination site in Lexington, Kentucky on April 5, 2021. McConnell has been one of the few national Republican leaders to consistently urge vaccination. (Timothy D. Easley/AP file)
While many Republican leaders nationwide are now calling more strongly for COVID vaccinations in light of the Delta variant, Tennessee’s leading Republicans have remained more muted.
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Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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