Harris win highlights local Election Day that saw maneuvering within
Congressman Steve Cohen speaks to his constituents during a Jan. 17, 2020, town hall meeting in his office. He focused mainly on impeachment-related issues. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
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.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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