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Michael Sainato

In Tennessee, Democrats hope a ‘coalition of the pissed off’ will flip a red district

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The Tennessee state representative Aftyn Behn speaks in Dickson on 8 September 2025. Photograph: George Walker IV/AP

Republicans have controlled Tennessee’s seventh congressional district for four decades. The party finished about 21 points ahead of the Democrats when the seat was last contested, alongside Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election last November.

Twelve months on, that lead has narrowed dramatically, according to opinion polls – and a challenger is attempting to build a “coalition of the pissed off” to overturn it altogether.

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