There are 101 article(s) tagged 2020 Election:

• March 2020

  • Candidates pull petitions for August election

    Candidates are filing petitions for August election ballot.

    By Bill Dries March 17, 2020

  • August ballot races start to fill out

    With three weeks to the filing deadline, some incumbent state legislators still haven't pulled their petitions to seek new terms in Nashville and a few of those races are filling up with potential challengers.

    By Bill Dries March 12, 2020

  • Brown and Boyd to meet in August in only countywide race of election year

    While the fight was for second place in the Democratic primary field of 13, Joe Brown emerged the victor in his second election in a year. He faces Republican Paul Boyd, upset in a Probate Court re-election bid two years ago in the August county general election.

    By Bill Dries March 04, 2020

  • Ballot Basics: Presidential Primary Election Day in Memphis

    Everything you need to know to vote on election day, from finding your precinct to keeping your long fingernails and voting in confidence.

    By Bill Dries March 03, 2020

• February 2020

  • Shelby County early voter turnout tops 2016 turnout and leads state

    The local turnout in advance of the March 3 election day accounted for 12.8% of the early vote statewide. Most of the Shelby County early vote was in the Democratic primaries for president and General Sessions Court Clerk.

    By Bill Dries February 26, 2020

  • Shelby County early vote tops 21,000 with two days to go

    The total is ahead of the early vote at this point four years ago but the difference narrowed over the weekend. And Davidson County leads the state's 95 counties in turnout through Saturday.

    By Bill Dries February 24, 2020

  • Local GOP chairman sees Shelby County as purple beyond presidential election year

    The declaration by Chris Tutor on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast echoes a recent message by Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris. Tutor also says he sees Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee and challenger to President Donald Trump.

    By Bill Dries February 22, 2020

  • Presidential politics ramps up as primaries near

    Several of the Democratic presidential campaigns started looking for Memphis votes on the first weekend of the early voting period with local politicos leading the charge to the March 3 election day.

    By Bill Dries February 17, 2020

  • Ballot Basics: General Sessions Court Clerk

    The basics of the race for General Sessions Court Clerk on the March 3 ballot. Early voting runs through Feb. 25.

    By Bill Dries February 13, 2020

  • What’s in a name? If it’s ‘clerk,’ it can be a tough race to sell

    The March primaries, which lead to the only general election for a countywide position this election year, is the latest skirmish between two factions – those who work in the clerk's offices and those who don't but who have name recognition from other races.

    By Bill Dries February 13, 2020

  • Ballot Basics: All about early voting

    Here is everything you need to prepare yourself for the early voting period that begins Wednesday in advance of the March 3 election day.

    By Bill Dries February 12, 2020

  • Monday marks busy day on local political calendar

    As the Iowa presidential caucuses get underway Monday, it also marks the last day to register to vote in the March 3 Tennessee presidential primaries and the first day for candidates in the August state and federal primaries to pull and file their paperwork to get on the ballot.

    By Bill Dries February 03, 2020

• January 2020

  • Bipartisan division, frustration simmer beneath county’s blue surface

    The jury is still out on whether Memphis will see much of the presidential campaigns a week away from the Iowa caucuses. But the divide over impeachment and social issues in a divided America is still evident in a blue county within a red state.

    By Bill Dries January 27, 2020

  • Local PAC seeks better use of campaign funds to flip House seats for Democrats

    Robert Donati of Future901 says the local PAC has a long-term strategy to do for Democrats what money from statewide campaigns has long been expected to do for down-ballot races. On the Daily Memphian Politics Podcast he talked about growing the pool or regular campaign contributors.

    By Bill Dries January 18, 2020

  • Cohen praises impeachment managers; Republican Senate primary field takes shape

    2020 Campaign Round Up: Bill Hagerty has the president’s backing while Dr. Manny Sethi says Hagerty is a “Washington insider.” 

    By Bill Dries January 16, 2020

  • Aug. and Nov. ballot candidates begin campaign moves

    Republican Charlotte Bergmann, who is seeking to once again challenge Democratic Cong. Steven Cohen this election year, kicked off her campaign this weekend at a gun-shooting range. Other contenders in other primary races on the August 6 ballot are making their moves as well. 

    By Bill Dries January 12, 2020

• December 2019

  • Primary field for General Sessions Court Clerk set at 17

    The field of contenders in 2020's only countywide election stood at 17 with the passing of Thursday's deadline for any candidates to withdraw who wished.

    By Bill Dries December 20, 2019

  • Field for General Sessions Court Clerk grows by one

    Add another candidate to the March 3 Democratic primary for General Sessions Court Clerk.

    By Bill Dries December 13, 2019

  • General Sessions Court Clerk primaries attract 16 by deadline

    A total of 16 contenders, 12 Democrats and 4 Republicans, filed by a Thursday, Dec. 12, noon deadline to run in the March 3 countywide primary for General Sessions Court Clerk.

    By Bill Dries December 12, 2019

  • Petitions pulled by 18 for General Sessions Court Clerk primaries

    The only countywide election of 2020 in Shelby County has drawn more than a dozen potential candidates for a position most citizens know little about. The political scramble for the office of General Sessions Court Clerk began in November when incumbent clerk Ed Stanton Jr. told his staff he would not be seeking a third full term.

    By Bill Dries December 12, 2019

  • Fields set for March Tennessee presidential primaries

    Two Republican challengers to President Donald Trump and 16 Democrats have made the ballot for the March 3 Tennessee presidential primaries.

    By Bill Dries December 04, 2019

• November 2019

  • Eddie Jones files for General Sessions Court Clerk on 2020 ballot

    Within days of General Sessions Court Clerk Ed Stanton telling his staff he would not seek re-election, one county commissioner has filed a petition for the clerk’s job.

    By Bill Dries November 06, 2019

  • Stanton reportedly passes on court clerk re-election bid

    The only countywide elected office on the ballot in 2020 will be a race without an incumbent if Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk Ed Stanton does not seek re-election.

    By Bill Dries November 04, 2019

• August 2019

  • Strong to challenge Cohen in 2020 Democratic Congressional primary

    Former Shelby County Democratic Party chairman Corey Strong will challenge U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen in the August 2020 Democratic Congressional primary.

    By Bill Dries August 03, 2019

• March 2019

  • Warren makes early campaign stop in Memphis Sunday

    Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren will make an early campaign stop in Memphis Sunday at Douglass High School.

    By Bill Dries March 13, 2019