Can Gloria Johnson turn Tennessee blue?
Gloria Johnson is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn for her seat. (Photo illustration by Nick Lingerfelt/The Daily Memphian)
The Democratic nominee for one of Tennessee’s two U.S. Senate seats says Tennessee is not really a red, or Republican, state even though Democrats haven’t won a statewide race for governor or Senate in 18 years.
Gloria Johnson, a state representative from Knoxville, is challenging Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn in the Nov. 5 statewide race.
It’s a challenge based on the belief Republican elected and political leaders, including Blackburn, have become too extreme for even conservative Tennessee voters.
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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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