What the race for governor looks like with Blackburn officially in
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP file)
One year to the day that voters across the state decide Democratic and Republican primaries for Tennessee governor, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn formally launched her campaign for the Republican nomination on social media.
It came with a checklist of Trump-era culture war issues.
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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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