When President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden arrive in Nashville Thursday for their final debate before the Nov. 3 election, they'll be greeted by a city with rising coronavirus case counts inside a state immersed in a debate of its own about mask-wearing.

President Donald Trump shunned formal debate practice Tuesday and was heading instead for another of his big rallies, two days ahead of the final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign. Democrat Joe Biden took the opposite approach, holing up for debate prep.

Voters have grown accustomed this time of year to mailboxes stuffed with campaign flyers and voicemail clogged by robocalls.

Republican State Sen. Todd Gardenhire is promoting diversity in Chattanooga law enforcement in the final weeks of his fight to maintain his seat against Democratic challenger and Assistant Chattanooga Police Chief Glenn Scruggs.

First-time voters in Tennessee won't have to appear in person to vote while a court appeal proceeds, as the Oct. 27 deadline to request an absentee ballot approaches.

A group's offer to pay churches $6 for every person they help to vote early this year does not violate any law although it might not be the "best practice" for getting out votes, Alabama's elections chief said Monday.

A poll worker in Memphis, Tennessee, has been fired after turning away early voters who were wearing "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe" shirts, an elections official said Monday.

Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Rep. Doug Collins both accused the other of lying and touted their own conservative credentials in their first debate, while Democrat Raphael Warnock assailed Loeffler for associating herself with a congressional candidate who has embraced baseless QAnon conspiracy theories and made racist remarks.

Dentist and activist Dr. Elenora Woods entered the 2021 race for mayor of Chattanooga Monday, promising opportunity, criminal justice reform and comprehensive homeless services if elected.

More than 725,000 Tennesseans cast ballots last week during the state's first four days of early voting in the Nov. 3 general election, a record-busting 42% jump over 2016 as voters continued to line up at polling stations as well as hit mail boxes with absentee mail-in ballots.

U.S. Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, defended Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday following news accounts that President Donald Trump called Fauci a "disaster" and said Americans have tired of the coronavirus during a call with campaign staffers.

The email from a political action committee seemed harmless: if you support Joe Biden, it urged, click here to make sure you're registered to vote.

Tennessee and Georgia voters shattered early voting records during the first days of the Nov. 3 general election as they eagerly flooded in-person voting sites or cast absentee-by-mail ballots in high-stakes contests for the presidency, Congress and state legislative seats.

More than 22 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record-shattering avalanche of early votes driven both by Democratic enthusiasm and a pandemic that has transformed the way the nation votes.

President Donald Trump was out-raised by Democrat Joe Biden in September and is being outgunned financially by his rival with just weeks to go until Election Day.

A U.S. appellate panel won't change Tennessee's signature matching requirement for absentee voting before the November election, affirming a lower court's decision.

Karen Handel is looking for Republicans to mobilize in Georgia's 6th District, once an incubator of high-profile Republicans. But Democrat Lucy McBath, who unseated Handel in 2018, is trying to show that Atlanta's wealthiest suburbs have changed.

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities Thursday night in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be.

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, Thursday night, their scuttled second debate replaced by dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to the pandemic that has reshaped the nation.

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They came by the thousands to vote early, descendants of slaves, children of the civil rights era and other Georgians standing in line for hours when all could have been somewhere else.

Tennessee is among the worst states in the country when it comes to political engagement, according to a new study that ranks the Volunteer State as the sixth least engaged.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, which in recent years has gotten far less Congressional attention than in the past, came into the cross hairs of rapid-fire attacks Tuesday from U.S. senate candidates in Tennessee.