Today's Race in the Tennessee 7th

[AlBUNDY4TDS]

Oh no what happened?

[Joe Ferguson forever]

12 minutes ago, Trump_is_Mentally_fit said:

The district my mother lived in down there was+41% for the Republican, yikes! 

We drive to Nashville when we go.  The areas around it are very rural and very red.  Nashville is getting crowded and expensive (but great to visit).  Perhaps they'll be gentrification of some of the surrounding areas.  But then the R's will redistrict and cut it up further...

Edited 1 hour ago by Joe Ferguson forever

[Roundybout]

17 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:

Oh no what happened?

 

Eh. 

 

[B-Man]

10 minutes ago, Roundybout said:

 

 

 

 

Obviously Number one is the correct answer.

 

A mistake that the Democrat party will continue to make.

 

 

[SectionC3]

30 minutes ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:

Oh no what happened?

Prices went up and the economy went south after Trump took over.  But your team won.  Good for you.  Bad for your wallet and quality of life. 

[Roundybout]

2 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Obviously Number one is the correct answer.

 

A mistake that the Democrat party will continue to make.

 

 

It worked in NYC 

[Pokebball]

13 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

Prices went up and the economy went south after Trump took over.  But your team won.  Good for you.  Bad for your wallet and quality of life. 

Behn would have been better on my wallet?

[Joe Ferguson forever]

10 minutes ago, Pokebball said:

Behn would have been better on my wallet?

Well, she can'tt do much worse than tariffs which 63% of Americans think are worsening costs.  pretty much any of these poll issues help explain the R shrinkage.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/ABC-News-Washington-Post-Ipsos-Poll-October-2025

[B-Man]

 

 

Democrats and their allies in the legacy media spent the last few weeks hyperventilating about the possibility of flipping a deep-red congressional seat in Tennessee, hoping to send a shockwave through the Republican Party ahead of the midterms and take that momentum to victory. They truly believed they could ***** victory in a district President Donald Trump carried by 22 points just last year.

 

But reality came crashing down on them Tuesday night when Decision Desk HQ projected Matt Van Epps as the winner of the special election for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district around 9:10 PM ET.

 

The Republican combat veteran defeated socialist Democrat state Rep. Aftyn Behn, a 36-year-old who the left hoped would be the face of their new southern strategy.

So much for that plan.

 

In fairness, this race should never have been close. The seat became vacant earlier in 2025 after Rep. Mark Green retired to pursue a job in the private sector, leaving a void in a district classified as R+10.

 

Normally, Republicans would sleepwalk through an election here. Yet, Democrats poured massive resources into this contest, sensing an opportunity to chip away at the razor-thin GOP House majority and validate their narrative of a building blue wave. House Majority PAC, which has deep ties to House Democratic leaders, invested $1 million in television and digital ads last month. Other left-wing groups, including Tennessee Rise PA, Planned Parenthood Votes, and Indivisible Action, also threw their weight and wallets behind Behn.

 

Money certainly flowed in Behn’s direction. She held a fundraising advantage over Van Epps heading into the final stretch, raising $1.2 million through November 12. That total included a staggering $1 million raised just since October 1. She entered the final weeks with $522,000 cash on hand, while Van Epps raised $993,000 and had $231,000 available.

 

Democrats clearly thought they could buy this seat. They were wrong.

 

 

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/12/02/democrats-choke-in-tennessee-special-election-n4946651#google_vignette

 

[AlBUNDY4TDS]

33 minutes ago, SectionC3 said:

Prices went up and the economy went south after Trump took over.  But your team won.  Good for you.  Bad for your wallet and quality of life. 

Removing illegals is bad for my quality of life?

 

Hoax, big time.

[The Frankish Reich]

1 minute ago, AlBUNDY4TDS said:

Removing illegals is bad for my quality of life?

 

Hoax, big time.

In a world where only Einsteins are allowed to immigrate, we must depend on an Einstein to clean our toilets and shovel our snow.

[AlBUNDY4TDS]

2 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

In a world where only Einsteins are allowed to immigrate, we must depend on an Einstein to clean our toilets and shovel our snow.

Brillant!

[The Frankish Reich]

I dunno, I kind of like this weird Aftyn girl's look. I feel like she would've been an antidote to the Trump Girl look that has taken over Washington.

[SCBills]

We have white liberal women professing their love for Somalians.   Hilarious. 
 

The Democrat base is beyond militant in their indoctrination at this point. 
 

Elections reside in the middle 20-30% of the electorate that is open to change whenever the party in power isn’t doing what they hoped. 
 

Trump is now at odds with that 20-30%, which opens the door for Democrats is lean red areas, but candidates still matter and Behn was an awful choice.  
 

That said… I don’t know if a moderate Dem turns out the libs in Nashville like she did.  She got wrecked in the suburbs though.