Gov. Bill Lee won a second term in Tennessee's general election on Tuesday with the well-funded Republican incumbent easily defeating Democrat Jason Martin, according to unofficial results.
As voters head to the polls Tuesday in the 2022 general election, here are what Tennessee and Georgia voters should know:
With political forecasters predicting Republicans will take control of the U.S. House from Democrats in Tuesday's elections, incumbent Congressman Chuck Fleischmann of Southeast Tennessee and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Northwest Georgia are viewed as sure-fire bets to return to Capitol Hill with new clout and influence when the 118th Congress convenes in January.
Tennessee government is placing some big bets on professional sports venues these days with legislators this year approving $500 million in taxpayer dollars for the Tennessee Titans' planned $2.1 billion domed stadium in Nashville while providing another $13.5 million in 2021 to help build a new Tennessee Smokies' minor league baseball stadium in Knoxville.
Newly released polling shows nearly 4 in 10 Tennessee voters surveyed remain undecided on how they will vote on Amendment 1, a state ballot measure on the Nov. 8 ballot that seeks to embed the state's 75-year-old "right-to-work" law in the Tennessee Constitution.
As early voting kicked off this week in Tennessee, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jason Martin continued to press for a debate, while incumbent Republican Gov. Bill Lee insisted it's not going to happen.
Proponents of the Nov. 8 ballot measure seeking to make Tennessee's decades-old "right to work" law a part of the state constitution say polling they commissioned shows a majority of voters back the provision, which appears on the ballot as Amendment 1.
State officials have given the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga the official nod to proceed with selecting a designer and construction manager/general contractor for the new home of its School of Nursing program.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett has entered a "best interest plea" to a charge of drunk driving in the case involving his arrest in June after leaving the Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival in Coffee County.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is leading a 13-member group of Republican state attorneys general demanding U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland respect the free speech rights of persons criticizing gender-affirming care of minors unless they are "engaged in violent crime or threats of violence."
