Two Republican U.S. senators who are backing different frontrunners in Tennessee's fractious GOP Senate primary are crisscrossing the Volunteer State on Friday to campaign with their chosen candidates.
Tennessee's bitter U.S. Senate GOP primary fight between Bill Hagerty and Manny Sethi became a battle of endorsements Wednesday as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced his support of Sethi and U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, soon afterward jumped in to say she backs Hagerty.
Democrat Glenn Scruggs raised $37,363 for his state Senate District 10 bid during the second quarter with the Chattanooga assistant police chief reporting a cash balance of $34,464.
Lawyers for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Manny Sethi's campaign are demanding Tennessee television stations yank an attack ad launched by a new Alexandria, Virginia-based super PAC, charging that the 30-second spot is "false and defamatory."
Early voting resumed Monday in Tennessee's Aug. 6 primary elections after at least 90,540 people cast early votes or by mail-in absentee ballot last Friday and Saturday, according to to Secretary of State Tre Hargett's office.
With early voting starting Friday in Tennessee, the long-simmering feud between the two top Republicans seeking the GOP nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat has erupted into a barrage of charges as well as television and radio ads assailing each other's conservative credentials.
A candidate running in Tennessee's 4th Congressional District Democratic primary says he was the target of a death threat after calling Grundy County a "hotbed of white supremacy" following a July 4th parade at which Confederate battle flags were flown.
Tennessee Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Bill Hagerty has resigned from the board of the futures brokerage firm R.J. O'Brien & Associates following the firm's recent posts on social media platforms in support of African Americans and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Most family members of a late Democratic state senator who led the successful effort 42 years ago to place a bust of controversial Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee's Capitol agree it's time for the bust to go.
NASHVILLE - Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission officials on Friday announced a crackdown to deter what officials say is a growing number of illegal alcohol sales by restaurants and bars to underage customers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
