Ford Jr. offers nuanced view of partisan politics and Trump
Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. returned to his hometown and the city he represented for a decade in Washington to talk about national politics, President Trump and the city’s edge.
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Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. returned to his hometown and the city he represented for a decade in Washington to talk about national politics, President Trump and the city’s edge.
Debates between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were held at Belmont in Nashville and Ole Miss in Oxford. Belmont has applied to host another one next fall. Ole Miss thought better of it.
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.
Four of the first six federal officials to be impeached by the House of Representatives were Tennesseans, including the first president ever indicted for “high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Tennessee’s Andrew Johnson.
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Corker believes the United States’ trade war against China is “getting out of hand” because of the nation’s failure to bring allies into the fight.
Former Gov. Bill Haslam is forecasting a Trump victory in the 2020 presidential race if Democrats continue to trend leftward but otherwise sees a tight race in a “split” country, though he won't say he will vote for President Trump.
House Speaker nominee believes gun laws should be handled at the federal level for the sake of uniformity.
FedEx chief Frederick W. Smith is one of three co-chairs of a Washington-based business think tank's new commission exploring ways to develop a positive trade agenda for the United States.
In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools.
With Democrats from across the nation calling for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings, state Rep. London Lamar said President Donald Trump planted the seeds for the deadly incidents by fomenting hatred.
Gov. Bill Lee is analyzing gun control legislation in the wake of two mass shootings nationally but appears most interested in cybersecurity to stop people who show signs of radicalism or mental “instability.”
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.
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.
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.
Alice Marie Johnson, the Memphis woman granted clemency by President Donald Trump after serving more than 21 years in prison on drug-related charges, is asking a federal court to terminate her five-year probation.
If reelected, Trump will be 74 starting his second term and even his combover will be somewhere around 40. The two leading Democrats will turn 80 in their first term if elected, an age closer to terry-cloth robes and sunrooms than mantles of power and situation rooms.
Biden, 76, will face plenty of left-leaning challengers as he battles for the Democratic nomination. Among those challenges is the notion that the primary campaign will not be kind to anyone with moderate political views.
Democratic presidential contenders will be all over this region in the months leading up to the Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi primaries. None of them has a prayer of winning electoral votes, but all three states will be sending delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee.
Trump is going to be on the ballot in 2020. By the time an impeachment process got under way, voters would already be casting ballots in Iowa and New Hampshire. Let the American people take care of removing Trump if that’s what they want.
Over the past two centuries, presidents almost always have become more effective and less influential during their first two years in office. President Donald Trump has defied these patterns.
The partial government shutdown is impacting Tennessee's only immigration court – located in Memphis – and some immigrants may have to wait a year or two for their cases to be rescheduled.