{"id":1258182,"date":"2022-01-31T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1258182"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:53:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:53:37","slug":"exclusive-gov-bill-lee-promotes-tennessee-as-america-at-its-best-ahead-of-state-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-gov-bill-lee-promotes-tennessee-as-america-at-its-best-ahead-of-state-of-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Gov. Bill Lee Promotes Tennessee As \u2018America At Its Best\u2019 Ahead Of State Of The State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-gov-bill-lee-promotes-tennessee-as-america-at-its-best-ahead-of-state-of-the-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1258182&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) is touting his state as \u201cAmerica at its best,\u201d purposefully setting Tennessee forward as a model for other states to follow in building opportunity, security, and freedom in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire obtained exclusive access to a video from Lee promoting his State of the State address, set to be delivered on Monday evening. The governor also spoke with The Daily Wire over the phone on Sunday afternoon ahead of his address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur American spirit is being tested, but in Tennessee we\u2019re proof that America hasn\u2019t lost her way. From frontier to frontrunner, our state has been a beacon to the nation 225 years. This is America at its best,\u201d Lee opens in the promotional video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe guard God-given freedom with a safe and just society. We innovate to meet the greatest challenges of our day, we value the privilege of America, and we hold great hope for the future. Now more than ever, it\u2019s clear that our ordinary is the rest of the country\u2019s extraordinary,\u201d he continues. \u201cOur national guard, our nurses and healthcare workers, first responders, teachers, small businesses \u2013 Tennessee is the capital of working people, USA. The times we\u2019re living in are not for the faint of heart. Scripture describes an especially wise people who understood their times and knew what to do. May we be those people. As Tennesseans, we will pray, we will serve, we will act. America needs Tennessee because we are America at its best.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>From the chaos in Afghanistan to the spread of Critical Race Theory in U.S. schools, many Americans are worried about the future of the United States, Lee says. His state is providing a model for others to follow to restore the \u201cAmerican spirit,\u201d and people are responding.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee is one of the most sought out states for individuals and families <a href=\"https:\/\/newschannel9.com\/news\/local\/tennessee-among-top-10-states-in-numeric-growth-from-mid-2020-to-mid-2021-relocation-real-estate-move-new-york-florida-georgia-california#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20data%2C%20Tennessee,%2D2020%20to%20mid%2D2021.\">relocating<\/a> since the outbreak of COVID-19 nearly two years ago. In 2020, Tennessee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/money\/2021\/01\/06\/tennessee-named-number-one-destination-covid-19-moves-uhaul-list-of-one-way-moves\/4130347001\/\">topped<\/a> U-Haul\u2019s list of one-way moves, beating out Texas and Florida. According to Lee, Tennessee\u2019s draw comes down to three of its core values as a state: opportunity, security, and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last couple years have really shown a bright light on the real differences between the way states are operated,\u201d Lee told The Daily Wire. \u201cI think many Americans actually still believe this is the greatest country in the world even though they look around the country and they see things that scare them happening in some places and policies that they think are very troubling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople believe in large part that this is the best country in the world but they want to be reminded of that and they look around the country and they look for places that remind them that America hasn\u2019t lost her way and I think Tennessee is one of those places,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee is controlled by a Republican governor and Republican supermajorities in the state legislature. Lee and other GOP leaders have used that control to pass a number of conservative policies cracking down on Critical Race Theory in schools, Confucius Institutes on college campuses, and passing legislation that would ban abortion after roughly six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Lee and Republicans have pushed back against continued lockdown measures over COVID-19, banning school mask mandates and filing multiple lawsuits against the federal government over vaccine orders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are clearly differences in the amount of government interactions or the amount of government interventions into people\u2019s lives over the past several years,\u201d Lee told The Daily Wire. \u201cI think [Americans] look at Tennessee and they say, \u2018that\u2019s a place where I can find opportunity, security, and freedom, and I\u2019m going to go there,\u2019 and they\u2019re coming here in record numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) is touting his state as \u201cAmerica at its best,\u201d purposefully setting Tennessee forward as a model for other states to follow in building opportunity, security, and freedom in the U.S. The Daily Wire obtained exclusive access to a video from Lee promoting his State of the State address, set to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}