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Opinion: 2024 elections: What will the journey look like for Gloria Johnson?

File photo/George Walker IV / The Associated Press / Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, announces her candidacy to run for the U.S. Senate during an event on Sept. 5, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn.
File photo/George Walker IV / The Associated Press / Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, announces her candidacy to run for the U.S. Senate during an event on Sept. 5, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. File photo/George Walker IV / The Associated Press / Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, announces her candidacy to run for the U.S. Senate during an event on Sept. 5, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn.

There are burdens that Tennesseans must put up with these days:

› The Titans playing poorly

› The shortage of pumpkin spice-flavored items

› And U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s tweets

Last week, while the country watched the horrific war between Israel and Hamas accelerate, Tennessee’s senior senator decided to tweet some nonsense.