Haslam says Tennessee Republicans at ‘recalibration moment’
The Republican Party “is a much, much more working-class party than it was 15 years ago. The issues that primarily motivate people have changed,” former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said in an interview with The Daily Memphian. (Mark Humphrey/AP file)
The former Tennessee governor talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the state’s path to Republican dominance and his call on Christian conservatives to pull away from the nation’s partisan political divide.
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