There are 117 article(s) tagged Bill Hagerty:

• August 2020

  • Nelson: Can the Democrats win November Senate elections in Tennessee and Mississippi?

    Stranger things have happened. Heck, Ronald Reagan carried New York – twice. 

    By Michael Nelson August 07, 2020

  • Hagerty, Bradshaw to meet in November Senate race

    It's Hagerty versus Bradshaw in the November general election Senate race on the statewide ballot. And the winners of Thursday's Republican and Democratic primaries came with some surprises for pollsters on the Republican side and for Democrats looking at the primaries campaign bank accounts.

    By Bill Dries August 07, 2020

  • Sethi campaigns with Cruz in Cordova in tight U.S. Senate primary

    Republican Senate contender Dr. Manny Sethi and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas portrayed rival candidate Bill Hagerty as a political insider despite having President Donald Trump’s endorsement. 

    By Bill Dries August 03, 2020

• July 2020

  • Republican Senate primary narrows between Hagerty and Sethi as Flinn seeks different path

    The three-way race is a skirmish between two to show who is closer to President Donald Trump and a different strategy by a third candidate, seen before in the 2018 GOP primary for Tennessee governor.

    By Bill Dries July 28, 2020

  • Hagerty praises federal response in Portland in joint online appearance with Trump

    During the half-hour online event Friday evening, Trump called Tennessee's Republican Senate primary "a real primary" -- an apparent reference to the tightening race between the former U.S. ambassador to Japan and Dr. Manny Sethi of Nashville.

    By Bill Dries July 20, 2020

• June 2020

  • August ballot contenders and Capitol Hill rhetoric catch up to George Floyd protest

    Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen says "defunding" police isn't what Democrats want and, in endorsing Tennessee Republican Senate contender Bill Hagerty, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton says protesters were exercising Constitutional rights

    By Bill Dries June 18, 2020

  • Never mind how we’re going to vote. What are we voting on?

    Believe it or not, something important is on the August ballot.

    By Michael Nelson June 01, 2020

• February 2020

  • Flinn wants policy to trump soundbites in U.S. Senate

    Dr. George Flinn of Memphis is making a sixth run for Congress, and he's willing to spend big in hopes of ending D.C.’s “drama” and putting policy to the nation's biggest problems at the forefront

    By Sam Stockard February 17, 2020

• January 2020

  • Perennial candidate throws hat in ring for Alexander’s Senate seat

    This will be Shelby County radiologist George Flinn's sixth campaign for Congress in the past decade. 

    By Sam Stockard January 29, 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

• October 2019

  • CPAC Memphis gathering touts Trump re-election

    Republican U.S. Senate contender Bill Hagerty was among those pushing the president's re-election campaign. Gov. Bill Lee talked about criminal justice reform and education reform as efforts that are beyond ideology. Lee also never mentioned President Donald Trump during his remarks at the Tuesday gathering.

    By Bill Dries October 29, 2019

• September 2019

  • Cohen and Kustoff differ on Trump impeachment inquiry

    Reaction to the opening of an impeachment inquiry announced Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also included Republican U.S. Senate contender Bill Hagerty.

    By Bill Dries September 24, 2019

  • Hagerty enters U.S. Senate race with heavy dose of Trump

    Citing a mid-summer endorsement by President Donald Trump and playing heavily on conservative themes, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty entered the 2020 U.S. Senate race’s Republican primary Monday morning.

    By Sam Stockard September 09, 2019

• July 2019

  • Nelson: David Kustoff for … governor?

    Kustoff’s career has mostly centered on federal offices, but if he’s open to another path to advancement, it might be the time for him to start focusing on Tennessee-specific issues that a candidate for governor will have to address.

    By Michael Nelson July 23, 2019

  • Sethi claims ‘GOP establishment’ tried to talk him out of Senate run

    With U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty likely to run for the U.S. Senate, the first Republican to enter the race, Manny Sethi, is calling out the Republican “establishment,” saying it pressured him not to seek the seat.

    By Sam Stockard July 19, 2019

  • Hagerty resigning from Japan ambassadorship with U.S. Senate run expected

    With a U.S. Senate run in the offing, Bill Hagerty is leaving his post as U.S. Ambassador to Japan after two years of service, the U.S. Embassy announced Tuesday.

    By Sam Stockard July 16, 2019

  • Trump tweet gives Hagerty jump in U.S. Senate race

    Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty hasn’t made an official announcement for a 2020 U.S. Senate candidacy, but President Donald Trump put him at the front of the race with a single tweet.

    By Sam Stockard July 15, 2019