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The nonprofit organization’s six-month leadership program guides members of the Black and Latinx communities to run for public office or to campaign for others seeking elected positions.
Ken Taylor, a well-known politico and education advocate, died Monday at age 36.
A record early vote total in Shelby County was the high point as voter turnout lagged on Election Day. In the aftermath of Tuesday’s election, there were other indications of deep fissures behind both of the front lines that define the county’s partisan divide.
The legend of Harold Ford Sr., the victorious underdog, was invoked Tuesday night by another upstart candidate seeking to take down a powerful foe in a Tennessee U.S. Senate race. But the comparisons were misplaced.
Republican Bill Hagerty handily defeated Democratic Memphis environmental activist Marquita Bradshaw Tuesday, Nov. 3, for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Lamar Alexander, bringing to an end the surprise run for the seat that Bradshaw began with a primary upset of Nashville attorney James Mackler.
Republican Bill Hagerty was in Cordova Monday morning and Democrat Marquita Bradshaw ended her campaign Monday evening in Orange Mound. The two have waged very different campaigns for the seat Lamar Alexander leaves at the end of the year.
The lawsuit filed Sunday seeks an expedited court hearing and injunction so U.S. Senate Democratic nominee Marquita Bradshaw’s campaign can contact voters ahead of Election Day and urge them to submit their absentee ballots.
Welcome to the alternate universe of 2020 election year politics in Tennessee and Mississippi. With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, the races for Senate seats in both states have turned into exercises in ultra-partisan campaigning.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Marquita Bradshaw is calling for a debate with Republican Bill Hagerty after their only scheduled event was canceled, saying she wants to face off, while his campaign accuses her of pulling a “political stunt.”
President Donald Trump’s plan to nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is putting Senate candidates Bill Hagerty and Marquita Bradshaw at odds six weeks before the Nov. 3 election.
On "Behind The Headlines," the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate says she's raised 10 times more money since she won the August primary statewide. Bradshaw touts an alternative path back to the U.S. Senate in Tennessee for Democrats that relies on community organizers and their networks.
Memphian Marquita Bradshaw caught the political world by surprise Thursday, winning the state’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate and spending only a fraction of the money that frontrunner James Mackler spent.
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.
South Memphis product Marquita Bradshaw is putting years of work as an environmental activist to work as she enters the U.S. Senate race as a political neophyte.
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