BREAKING: Marquita Bradshaw wins the Tennessee Democratic Senate Primary...

[brooklynite]

Presumed nominee James Mackler comes in third.

Marquita Bradshaw - 112,572 - 36.5%
Robin Kimbrough - 81,159 - 26.3
James Mackler - 69,754 - 22.6

Had lunch with Mackler last year; never thought TN was winnable in the first place, but this reinforces why I don't give money to out of State Primary candidates.

Observation: the progressive wing now has an opportunity to show how winnable a campaign built around Medicare for All and Green New Deal is in a State that's not SAFE D...

[Docreed2003]

1. This is kind of a surprise to me

Mackler seemed like a really strong candidate. I met him as well.

[sandensea]

2. Yeah. The days of Al Gore are long gone in Te-no-see

Now it's all either Manchurian candidates or Elmer Gantrys (on the GOP side at least).

[Roland99]

3. Look at number of GOP votes vs Dem votes

TN is as red as it gets

[jorgevlorgan]

4. WV too

Hope they pull it off!

[Celerity]

5. the only chance we had was Tim McGraw, and after saying for years he would run for Senate when

he was 50 (he is 53 now) he has turned down the chance to run for TWO open seats (2018 and 2020).

So utterly frustrated with him.