{"id":1552346,"date":"2022-07-13T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1552346"},"modified":"2022-07-13T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:19:16","slug":"tennessee-congressional-candidates-appear-at-the-epoch-times-first-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-congressional-candidates-appear-at-the-epoch-times-first-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Congressional Candidates Appear at The Epoch Times\u2019 First Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ftennessee-congressional-candidates-appear-at-the-epoch-times-first-debate%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=1552346&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>NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u2014Pioneering a new method of political discourse, The Epoch Times hosted a debate among three candidates in Tennessee\u2019s 5th\u00a0Congressional District Republican primary at Landmark Auditorium in Nashville on July 12.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Nashville Republican Women, the Nashville Young Republicans, and the Williamson County Young Republicans, the forum featured questions asked by a panel of experts covering election integrity, economics, health care, education, foreign policy, and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Five candidates were invited to participate. Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles, West Point graduate and U.S. Army combat veteran Jeff Beierlein, and former state senate legislative aide Tres Wittum took the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney and former Tennessee National Guard joint staff director\u00a0Brig. Gen. Kurt Winstead committed to appear before canceling. Former Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell declined and attended a Washington D.C. Chamber of Commerce fundraiser for her campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The seat is currently occupied by Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), who has represented the district since 2003 but announced in February that he would not seek reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have held the 5th\u00a0District congressional seat since 1875, but redistricting announced in February split Davidson County through downtown Nashville, shifting portions of the former 5th\u00a0District\u00a0to the mostly rural and historically Republican 6th\u00a0District and 7th\u00a0District.<\/p>\n<p>When the new congressional maps were approved in February, Cooper announced he would not seek another term.<\/p>\n<p>The district is rated as solid Republican by the Cook Political Report, safe Republican by Sabato\u2019s Crystal Ball, and likely Republican by Inside Elections.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the historic implications that could lead to a Republican winning the 5th Congressional District seat for the first time since Ulysses S. Grant was president, the GOP primary is an ideal race for The Epoch Times\u2019 new method of political debate.<\/p>\n<p> Panel Members <\/p>\n<p>Moderator Roger Simon, who is editor-at-large and a columnist for The Epoch Times, suggested the idea for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn.\u2014Pioneering a new method of political discourse, The Epoch Times hosted a debate among three candidates in Tennessee\u2019s 5th\u00a0Congressional District Republican primary at Landmark Auditorium in Nashville on July 12. Hosted by the Nashville Republican Women, the Nashville Young Republicans, and the Williamson County Young Republicans, the forum featured questions asked by a panel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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-1552346","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\/1552346","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552346\/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=1552346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}