Melody Shekari, 28, a lawyer who just completed a policy analyst fellowship with Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke's office, is scheduled to make her candidacy official at 9 a.m. Thursday.LIVE
The Associated Press is calling the Third U.S. Congressional District contest for GOP incumbent Chuck Fleischmann.
Fleischmann has a more than two-to-one lead over Democratic challenger Melody Shekari, 106,387 for Fleischmann to 49,537 for Shekari.
Fleischmann was first elected to Congress in 2010.