Natalie Allison
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National political reporter @Politico . Previously @Tennessean . North Carolinian. Hit me up: nallison @politico .com
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Three Dems facing expulsion over protesting for gun control during session. Tennessee House GOP previously declined to take a vote on expelling a Republican member accused of sexually assaulting multiple teen girls
BREAKING: House Resolutions have been filed against Rep. Justin Jones, Rep. Justin Pearson and Rep. Gloria Johnson to formally expel them from the Tennessee House.
@NC5
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To recap, Trump couldn’t decide whether to endorse Eric Greitens or Eric Schmitt in the Missouri Senate race, so he just endorses “ERIC” the night before the election. Now both are graciously thanking him for his sincere support.
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Trying to force Justin Jones out of the Tennessee Capitol has never worked. For years, he’d be removed during protests and kept returning. In 2019, he was banned for months after being arrested. He went on to become an elected official there. He’ll likely be reappointed.
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Me, sitting at the Outback Steakhouse bar working after the Trump rally:
Lady next to me drinking chardonnay: “the FBI came to my house to interview me about being at the Capitol on January 6th”
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The bust of Confederate Gen. and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest is off its pedestal and being wheeled out of the Tennessee Capitol.
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Georgia Lt. Gov Jeff Duncan (R) just said on CNN he waited in line for an hour to vote today, but couldn’t bring himself to cast a ballot and left without voting.
He says Herschel hasn’t shown he wouldn’t be “Trump’s puppet.”
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The latest Herschel Walker abortion scandal is on CNN and yes, all the DC folks are aware. But 11 Alive in Atlanta tonight led with crime, followed by more crime — so until Democrats take out ads about it, don’t assume voters in Georgia are aware or actively thinking about this.
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This is not an episode of Jerry Springer. It’s tonight’s Ohio Republican Senate debate.
“You’re dealing with the wrong guy,” Mandel says to Gibbons before calling him a “pussy.”
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As he waits for the State of the State to begin, Rep. Kent Calfee takes a swig of from his Hershey’s chocolate syrup bottle, as he often does during
#tnleg
session. Photo by
@Tennessean
’s
@GeorgeWalkerIV
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To recap, Tennessee Republicans got a week of thrashing on the national stage, Democrats got money and attention they’ve only dreamed of for years, and Justin Jones didn’t miss a day of session since his expulsion.
Wild scene from the balcony of the House as Jones is sworn in by Chancellor I'Ashea Myles. His name was back on the electronic board in the House by 5:22
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Now on the Tennessee House floor, Rep. Justin Lafferty is yelling about how the three-fifths compromise was good. Republicans applaud. Members of the black caucus are huddling in groups.
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I was sitting in a hallway accessible to the general public when the hotel’s head of security approached, saying the RNC told him to instruct me to leave the premises and not return until Friday’s “open press” event. I’m a paying guest of the hotel.
The RNC now has security in Salt Lake City interrupting conversations, asking reporters for their room numbers and telling them they should not be interviewing people. For a party that might, in some normal universe, be celebrating its midterm prospects, this is peak insecurity
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Hello from the Trump rally in Selma, North Carolina.
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NEW: Police visited the home of Anthony Quinn Warner last year after his girlfriend told them he was "building bombs in the RV." The FBI was also told about the report last August.
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Bit of a skirmish at DeSantis’ first stop of the day in Iowa. Two protesters here are drowning out his remarks shouting “pudding fingers” and someone supporting him is trying to get them to stop.
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Reminder that these are the two frontrunners in Ohio’s GOP Senate primary
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“Are you a racist? Do you hate Mexicans?” JD Vance asks in new Senate ad.
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Six months after Taylor Swift first weighed in on Tennessee politics, she has now donated $113,000 to a pro-LGBTQ advocacy group in the state.
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Sen. Joey Hensley, who was prescribing opioids to a woman who was simultaneously his employee, second cousin and lover, continues to be one of the top sponsors of anti-LGBT bills in Tennessee.
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As Trump took the stage in Iowa, this ironic line played: “One could end up going to prison, one just might be president.”
He had to walk out to Brooks & Dunn (like all candidates tonight) instead of his usual Lee Greenwood.
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"If you’re part of the white supremacist movement, you’re not somebody that we want in Tennessee," Gov. Bill Haslam said today.
White Lives Matter rally: Gov. Bill Haslam says white supremacists 'not welcome' via
@tennessean
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Asked about being antisemitic, Ohio Senate candidate Mark Pukita just doubled down on putting out an ad reminding voters that Josh Mandel is Jewish. “He’s Jewish — everyone should know that.”
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First it was Lamar Alexander, and now Candace Owens is being honored on the floor of the Tennessee House.
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"The situation at CPAC has become such that I felt compelled to resign,” says longtime board member/vice-chair Charlie Gerow.
He is calling for outside investigations into sexual assault allegations against Matt Schlapp and the group's finances.
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New: Asa Hutchinson has asked the RNC to amend its loyalty pledge so candidates won’t have to promise to potentially support a convicted felon. In a call today, RNC officials said absolutely not.
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Today I learned an incredible fact, which is that Confederate Gen. and early KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest died of chronic diarrhea
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Tennessee’s health commissioner says all the children’s hospitals will be full by the end of next week. The House speaker, meanwhile, plans to take legislative action against schools with mask mandates or going virtual.
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The House joint resolution celebrating Tomi Lahren’s move to Nashville has stalled in the Tennessee Senate, where no one so far will agree to sponsor it.
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Per state law, Gov. Bill Lee has signed a proclamation declaring tomorrow Nathan Bedford Forrest Day, which honors the Confederate general and early KKK grand wizard. Lee said he has not considered changing that law.
#tnleg
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Today’s reopen rally organizer Steve Hasty of Murfreesboro says what he misses most is sitting in restaurants and getting free drink refills.
“I hate having to get two iced teas in the drive thru,” he says.
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Incredibly, none of the Democrats so far have replied to his comments, which were made on a bill about banning critical race theory in schools. Democrats have stood up to say other things, but not to address Lafferty’s remarks that the three-fifths compromise was a good thing.
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NEW: Soon-to-be Congressman Mark Green, a physician, warned constituents last night vaccines may be causing autism. He says he's going to "stand on the CDC’s desk and get the real data on vaccines."
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Demonstrators are occupying the entrance to CoreCivic, a Nashville-based private prison operator that contracts with ICE. They've shut down multiple entrances, set up tents & replaced CCA/Tennessee flag with "No borders." Employees are just starting to arrive.
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This was quite a moment. Protest has been peaceful and several legislators (all Dem) have addressed the protesters.
@brotherjones_
asked the National Guard to drop their shields, and they did.
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Duncan was critical of Herschel Walker before the general election, saying back then that Herschel hadn’t earned his vote. So it’s unclear what Duncan had in mind today when he got in line to vote.
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For the last few days, Dr. Oz has been threatening in his fundraising texts to “call it quits” if more people don’t donate >
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New: Huge $3.2M TV ad buy just placed in New Hampshire by GOP group Citizens for Sanity — a massive boost for Don Bolduc in the final days of the Senate race.
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Here’s the clip. Waiting in line for an hour to have this story to tell on CNN is commitment to the bit, you gotta admit
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You folks asked if Josh Mandel’s campaign photoshopped his head onto a Black man, and I looked for answers. They did not, the campaign says. It appears a darkening filter was used on the ad. Here’s the original photo for comparison.
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Don Bolduc’s campaign says he was the victim of an attempted assault tonight while walking into the debate. Someone tried to attack/punch him and was arrested, a spokesperson says. He wasn’t harmed.
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Ohio GOP Senate debate is lit. Mike Gibbons and Josh Mandel may get into a fist fight.
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New: Tim Scott's live TV announcement that he is dropping out of the race came as a shock even to his own campaign staffers, who watched it happen in real time.
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Second mass shooting in two weeks when a governor's family friend was murdered. Beshear says he lost a close friend today; Gov. Bill Lee's wife lost one of her best friends in Nashville school shooting.
"I have a very close friend that didn't make it today," Kentucky Gov. Beshear says after 5 people were killed in a shooting at a Louisville bank.
"And I have another close friend who didn't either, and one who's at the hospital that I hope is going to make it through."
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NEW INFO about suspected shooter: Travis Reinking was arrested by Secret Service in July for being in restricted area of White House. AR-15 used today had been seized after that, but IL law enforcement returned it to his father who gave it back to Reinking.
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BREAKING: White nationalists march in to Shelbyville chanting "Closed borders, white nation, now we start the deportation."
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Guns are permitted in the legislative building, but Tennessee lawmakers ban protest signs, which “represent a serious safety hazard.”
Tennessee lawmakers to allow guns but prohibit 'hand-carried signs' in new building via
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🚨I’m headed to
@Politico
! I’ll be reporting on Senate campaigns and the battle for control of the chamber — and I couldn’t be more thrilled to do it. Moving from Nashville to DC before I start Oct. 12, so please reach out with tips, hellos, secret documents, general gripes, etc.
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NEW: The FBI is executing search warrants at multiple Republican legislators' offices at Tennessee's Cordell Hull office building. Among them, the offices of former House Speaker Glen Casada and Rep. Robin Smith.
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Justin Jones' 2019 misdemeanor charge, by the way, was for throwing a cup of iced tea at then-House Speaker Glen Casada, who now is awaiting his own federal trial amd no longer in office.
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NOW: Nearly an entire high school in Nashville walked out of an assembly and marched to the State Capitol. They were led out by
#MeToo
founder Tarana Burke.
Students from Hume-Fogg walked out of school and to the Capitol. Their message: “We demand change.”
#nationalwalkout
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Lindsey Graham can’t even start his speech at the Trump rally in Pickens because the crowd won’t stop booing him. Just nonstop booing drowning him out.
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Tennessee’s health commissioner, Dr. Lisa Piercey, just told me children’s hospitals here are on pace to be completely full by the end of next week. Which ones? “All of them,” she said.
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We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Their dominant strategy: Sowing racial discord.
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Herschel Walker is up with a new runoff ad about transgender athletes, featuring a swimmer who tied with Lia Thomas.
“My senior year, I was forced to compete against a biological male,” Riley Gaines says in the ad for Walker’s Senate campaign.
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Kari Lake begins her speech at Turning Point USA by complaining that mainstream media aren’t covering the conference, then tells attendees to turn around and boo the reporters who are here covering it. (!)
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🚨Tim Scott is doing a girlfriend soft launch tonight
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Alamance County, NC is home for me. The courthouse where cops pepper sprayed people participating in a march to the polls is the same place where the KKK in 1870 hanged Wyatt Outlaw, the first Black elected official in Graham. A confederate monument stands there today.
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Washington Post editorial board calls on John Fetterman to release his medical records for independent review — and to debate Oz by next week.
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Per spox, Tennessee Attorney General's Office has joined an amicus brief related to the Texas election lawsuit against GA, MI, PA and WI.
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This is Michael Jordan, 31, who has been sitting by himself with a sign in front of the Tennessee Capitol this afternoon. There’s a rally planned in a couple hours, but he said he wanted to sit in his own peaceful protest beforehand.
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A couple hundred people, most in their 20s and 30s, are now outside SCOTUS. There’s still not yet any organized protest or chanting, just folks standing around talking. Guy just whipped out a can of White Claw.
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This woman, Antoinette Smith, is pleading with people to stop the rioting, despite having a black son and herself being grieved. She saw the news and drove over.
“This is not power. That is not strength,” she says.
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Guys … I was just telling you what’s on the local news in Georgia tonight and that regular people aren’t scrolling DC reporter Twitter and don’t watch CNN
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Breaking:
@TBInvestigation
says suspect wanted for attempted murder of Knoxville police officer last night is a member of white supremacist group Aryan Nations and "has a history of violence."
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Lindsey Graham suggested on NRSC call yesterday that fraud in NV would be the only way GOP loses.
“There is no mathematical way Laxalt loses,” Graham said. “If he does, then it’s a lie.”
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NEW: The Tennessee General Assembly has approved wide-ranging legislation to crack down on protesters, now making it a felony (up to 6 years in prison) to set up a tent overnight outside the Capitol. Protesters have done so for 2 months now.
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New: The pro-Tim Scott super PAC is canceling all of its TV ads this fall.
"We aren’t going to waste our money when the electorate isn’t focused or ready for a Trump alternative," the co-chair wrote to donors.
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Vance, who has largely driven the illegal immigration conversation in Ohio’s GOP Senate primary, is leaning hard into it in the final weeks of a race where he has yet to take the lead.
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This is appalling. I have zero insight into our advertising process and I’m on furlough this week, so I hope someone else can find out how this met the paper’s ad standards.
This morning, the Nashville
@Tennessean
— the largest newspaper in the state — published a full-page ad from a far-right client warning “Islam is going to detonate a nuclear device in Nashville, Tennessee.” It’s accompanied by photos of Donald Trump and Pope Francis.
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"If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn't have had a major stroke," Dr. Oz's campaign says.
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If you think Tennessee will respond to today’s deadly school shooting by passing laws to make it harder to get a gun, you’re mistaken. The GOP legislature fought for years to allow adults to carry a gun without a permit, which passed in 2021 as part of a “public safety agenda.”
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New: After Nashville shooting, GOP Gov. Bill Lee says he's signing an executive order strengthening background checks, and is urging legislature to pass a type of red flag law.
@itsmelissabrown
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NEW: Justin Jones, the activist who convinced National Guard on Monday to lay down their shields, is now being charged with felony aggravated rioting for damaging a Nashville police car Saturday.
This was quite a moment. Protest has been peaceful and several legislators (all Dem) have addressed the protesters.
@brotherjones_
asked the National Guard to drop their shields, and they did.
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New: After 8 months hospitalized for covid-19 — ventilator, inability to walk, liver transplant — Republican Rep. David Byrd is speaking out and is pro-vaccine. "It is a disease that wants to kill us," he said. "Please take it seriously.
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DeSantis’ staff are now comparing Rep. Byron Donalds, the black GOP congressman who endorsed Trump, to Kamala Harris after he criticized Florida’s new curriculum on slavery.
The new African-American standards in FL are good, robust, & accurate. That being said, the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted. That obviously wasn't the goal & I have faith that FLDOE will correct this.
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It is 2:50 a.m. and the Tennessee House of Representatives just passed a resolution congratulating the people of the state for "clearly seeing that the mainstream media has sensationalized the reporting on COVID-19 in the service of political agendas."
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IT'S HAPPENING. KKK just came through Roxboro. Battle flags & shouting "WHITE POWER!"
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RNC says there was a mix up with their multiple security teams.
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To be clear, Phil Valentine died of covid and was unvaccinated. This needs to be stressed. I hope his listeners take heed and get the vaccine after Phil’s tragic death.
Maria and I are deeply saddened by the loss of Phil Valentine and pray for his family as they navigate the difficult days ahead.
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I asked Tim Scott about the Florida slavery curriculum/DeSantis: “There’s no silver lining to slavery,” he says. It “was really about separating families about mutilating humans, and even raping their wives.”
Says he hopes “everyone running for president would appreciate that”
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Complaining about the bail he will have to post in Atlanta, Trump is now joking about fleeing to Russia to “share a gold domed suite with Vladimir” Putin, “never to be seen or heard from again.”
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I was just surrounded by troopers trying to force me to leave the second floor of the Capitol where the Forrest bust is located. I refused to leave. After back and forth with the governor’s office, they’ve now agreed to let the other media back up there, but behind a rope.
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Tfw you get profiled in the New York Times for trying to price gouge hand sanitizer and the Tennessee attorney general starts naming names in a press release
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@Dave_Boucher1
@MNPDNashville
Chad Bagwell of Ala. is one of first white nationalists to arrive. He learned about White Lives Matter rally on VK, "the Russian Facebook."
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During these trying times I am literally not being paid this week by my company
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DeSantis added a stop at a barbecue restaurant in Des Moines, where Trump’s scheduled rally tonight was canceled.
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Rep. Ted Budd, NC's Republican Senate nominee, is cosponsoring Sen. Graham's abortion ban.
That's in contrast to GOP Senate candidates in some other tight races distancing themselves from the 15-week national ban.
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Blake Masters said today he supports Lindsey Graham’s 15-week abortion ban. Masters’ campaign spokesman, meanwhile, retweeted an account suggesting the bill is a bad idea for Rs. (And has now un-retweeted it)
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Another CPAC board member, Timothy Ryan, also resigned last week, part of a series of longtime members stepping down from the board in recent months.
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Masters says Biden is the "legitimate" president.
Says he's upset about stories about Hunter Biden being "censored."
Adds he believes in "election day" and not "election season."
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Sununu confirms he did not give McConnell/Scott a heads up on his decision not to run for Senate. "I guess you'll have to let them know. I haven't talked to them."
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New: The bust of Confederate General and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest is set to be moved from the Tennessee Capitol this week, sources say, following years of controversy over its placement.
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Tennessee is the only state where both U.S. senators say they will oppose the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty are among the 11 Senate Republicans doing so.
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My uncle suffered a stroke years back and still has aphasia. There’s no question whether his intelligence is intact — it is. The ability to process conversation in real time and respond is a lingering challenge, and that was absolutely a real issue tonight for Fetterman.
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Trump’s endorsed candidate in TN-5,
@MorganOrtagus
, and
@robbystarbuck
were just kicked off the primary ballot by the Tennessee Republican Party. Their GOP credentials were challenged because they haven’t voted in three recent primaries there.
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Deputy Speaker Matthew Hill (in the running for House speaker) has owned a Christian magic supply business for 2 years, but has never registered it with state or local officials. He wouldn't say whether he has paid taxes on it.
#tnleg
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NEW:
@GovBillLee
has called for a meeting next week to vote on removing from the Capitol the bust of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. It's likely that vote will succeed.
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