Republican U.S. Senate rivals Bill Hagerty and Manny Sethi are getting pilloried on social media after they and a number of other attendees at a Hamilton County Republican Party fundraiser were shown in photos as maskless and not maintaining social distance in a county with COVID-19 mask-wearing requirements.
Tennessee candidates are mounting their final charge toward Thursday's election, in which nearly 600,000 voters have already cast early or absentee votes in contests ranging from county school board to a bitterly contested U.S. Senate Republican primary.
Tennessee Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Bill Hagerty topped GOP rival Manny Sethi Friday night in a Hamilton County Republican Party straw poll for the state's hotly contested Aug. 6 primary election.
A Democratic U.S. House panel chairman's demand that Gov. Bill Lee and three other Republican governors begin following private guidance from the White House Coronavirus Task Force to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and also provide him the recommendations has two Tennessee congressmen taking opposing sides.
Belmont University officials say they remain committed to hosting the third and final 2020 presidential debate in late October despite the coronavirus pandemic and two other host cities having pulled out of the first and second debates over health concerns.
The Democratic chairman of a U.S. House coronavirus panel on Wednesday sent letters to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and two fellow Republican governors seeking documents on recommendations the Trump administration privately made on the states' respective COVID-19 surges and whether the states followed them.
While still recovering from his personal battle with COVID-19, a Nashville physician on Tuesday challenged Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to put his convictions behind his 2018 campaign's "man of faith" slogan by "having the courage" to lead and mandate statewide mask use.
NASHVILLE -With Tennessee coronavirus positivity rates now hitting 10%, White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx warned Monday the state is at an "inflection point" and urged all 95 county mayors to mandate residents wear protective masks, close bars and implement social distancing to dampen the spread of the virus.
Tennesseans set a blistering pace during the first seven days of state early and absentee voting in the Aug. 6 election, more than doubling numbers of votes cast during the same time frame in 2012 and 2016, state figures show.
Two Republican U.S. senators and potential 2024 presidential contenders barnstormed across the state this past week on behalf of opposing front-runners in the GOP's hotly contested Aug. 6 U.S. Senate primary for Tennessee.
