{"id":2022029,"date":"2023-09-05T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-three-democrat-announces-run-for-marsha-blackburn-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:41:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:41:03","slug":"tennessee-three-democrat-announces-run-for-marsha-blackburn-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-three-democrat-announces-run-for-marsha-blackburn-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tennessee Three&#8217; Dem runs for Marsha Blackburn&#8217;s Senate seat."},"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\">18<\/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-three-democrat-announces-run-for-marsha-blackburn-senate-seat%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=2022029&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--><h2>Tennessee State Rep. Gloria \u2062Johnson Announces Senate Bid\u2062 to\u200c Challenge Sen. Marsha Blackburn<\/h2>\n<p>Tennessee state Rep. \u200cGloria\u2063 Johnson, a member of the \u201cTennessee Three\u201d who faced expulsion\u2063 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/noem-revives-south-dakota-transgender-sports-bill-includes-provision-for-colleges\/\" title=\"Noem Revives South Dakota Transgender Sports Bill, Includes Provision For Colleges\">state legislature earlier<\/a> this\u200c year, has officially launched her \u200dcampaign to unseat Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Johnson&#8217;s announcement comes after\u2063 forming an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-three-democrat-announces-run-for-marsha-blackburn-senate-seat\/\" title=\"'Tennessee Three' Dem runs for Marsha Blackburn's Senate seat.\">exploratory \u200bcommittee earlier<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Gloria has dedicated her life \u200dto fighting for justice and standing tall for Tennesseans\u2064 who have been left out, left\u2064 behind, or left without a \u200dvoice,&#8221; her campaign said \u200din a press release. &#8220;She is challenging Marsha Blackburn because Tennessee deserves a Senator\u200c who will\u2063 fight for working families, not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/civil-rights-icon-barbara-jordans-legacy-26-years-later-protecting-americans-from-mass-immigration\/\" title=\"Civil Rights Icon Barbara Jordan's Legacy, 26 Years Later: Protecting Americans from Mass Immigration\">special interest donors<\/a> and D.C.\u2062 politicians.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnson gained national attention\u2063 as one of\u200d the &#8220;Tennessee Three,&#8221; a group of\u2062 state lawmakers who faced expulsion after participating in a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/las-vegas-newspaper-seems-to-blame-extremist-republicans-for-attempted-shooting-after-alleged-shooter-outed-as-left-wing-activist\/\" title=\"Las Vegas Newspaper Seems To Blame \u2018Extremist Republicans\u2019 For Attempted Shooting, After Alleged Shooter Outed As Left-Wing Activist\">gun violence protest<\/a>. While\u200c Johnson narrowly avoided expulsion by just one vote, her colleagues Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were\u200b ousted. However, both Jones and Pearson\u200d were later reinstated after winning special elections for \u2063their seats.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who was first elected to the\u2062 Tennessee \u2062House in 2012, lost reelection in 2014 but was reelected \u2064in 2018 and 2020. In 2022,\u2063 she moved to District 90 \u2064after the state&#8217;s\u2063 redistricting \u200cshifted the \u2063congressional boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn&#8217;s campaign dismissed Johnson&#8217;s \u2064challenge, labeling the state representative &#8220;as\u200b woke\u200d as they come.&#8221; They also highlighted Blackburn&#8217;s \u2064strong performance in the \u200b2018 midterm elections, where she defeated then-Gov. Phil Bredesen by nearly 11 points, becoming the first \u2063woman elected U.S. senator from Tennessee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Johnson] would be a puppet \u200bfor Joe Biden, the\u200c Squad, and Chuck Schumer in the \u2064Senate,&#8221; said Abigail Sigler, a spokeswoman for Blackburn&#8217;s campaign.\u2063 &#8220;While Senator Blackburn is working hard to fight back against Biden&#8217;s woke\u2062 agenda, State Rep. Johnson is\u200b pushing\u200c that divisive, \u200bdestructive agenda here in\u200d Tennessee. Tennesseans deserve a United States Senator who is committed to fighting for our conservative values. Senator Blackburn will continue \u2064her record of getting things done and fighting for Tennessee families.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blackburn&#8217;s seat is expected\u2064 to heavily favor Republicans,\u2063 particularly after then-President Donald Trump won\u200c the state by over 23 points in \u20632020. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has rated the race as &#8220;Solid Republican.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson, part of the &#8220;Tennessee Three&#8221; almost expelled from the state legislature, plans to run for Senate against Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Johnson officially launched her campaign after forming an exploratory committee, announcing the challenge during a city tour on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022029","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=2022029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}