Justin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seat
Nominees to face off in November in redistricted seat central to Trump’s bid to retain slim Republican majorityTennessee primary voters picked a pair of Memphis-area lawmakers to square off in a dramatically reconfigured US House seat central to Donald Trump’s…
By · August 7, 2026 · 1 min read
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Nominees to face off in November in redistricted seat central to Trump’s bid to retain slim Republican majority
Tennessee primary voters picked a pair of Memphis-area lawmakers to square off in a dramatically reconfigured US House seat central to Donald Trump’s plan to try to hold on to a slim Republican majority in the midterm congressional elections.
Republicans chose state senator Brent Taylor, who was endorsed by Trump, to be their nominee in the revamped 9th congressional district. Democrats picked state representative Justin Pearson, who gained national prominence three years ago when he was expelled from the Tennessee House for protesting in support of gun control measures.
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