A Tennessee state representative who became nationally prominent after she and two other Democrats locked horns with Republicans in the legislature over gun violence and firearms restrictions is running for US Senate.
Gloria Johnson launched her campaign on Tuesday, with hundreds in attendance, at a high school where she used to teach special education, and which has been touched by the gun violence which has become a central issue for her and her two colleagues, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, in the so-called “Tennessee Three”.
