Several Democrats have also said they’ll be running in next year’s U.S. Senate race in Tennessee. “I think people are fed up with it, I’m fed up with it, and I think the people of Tennessee are fed up with it,” Hagerty said. GOP operatives also mentioned University of Tennessee president and 2018 gubernatorial candidate Randy Boyd as a possible candidate. He had considered running for Sen. Bob Corker’s open seat in 2017. Sethi said politicians in Washington, D.C. need to offer the American people a clear plan. Calling himself a product of the American dream, Sethi credits his parents, who legally came to the United States from India, and his community, as a key inspiration for who he is today. Sethi said as a trauma surgeon, he has come to realize life is like a the flame of candle: it can end suddenly. Democrats contested the open Tennessee Senate seat in 2018, but former Gov. The primary for both parties is in August. “He said, 'son, it doesn’t matter what’s in your bank account. Sethi’s father refused the money, drawing a question from his son. Sethi announced his candidacy Monday in an exclusive interview with The Tennessean. What matters is the difference that you make,'” said Sethi. Sethi said he supported the so-called heartbeat bill — which prohibited abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected — that was considered by state lawmakers this year. When asked if he sees himself as someone who is always aligned with the president, Sethi shared a story of when the Trump administration asked him to come to Washington, D.C. to discuss his work in Tennessee.

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DeVaney previously served as chairman of the state Republican Party and Lee's campaign manager. Tennessee Roots. The race is Tennessee’s highest-profile election in 2020 and comes after U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander announced in November that he would not seek a fourth term. Gehrke was a general consultant to Lee's gubernatorial campaign. Nashville orthopedic trauma surgeon Manny Sethi is officially entering the 2020 race for Tennessee’s open U.S. Senate seat, making him the first top-tier Republican to launch a bid. CQ Roll Call is a part of FiscalNote, the leading technology innovator at the intersection of global business and government. Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander’s announcement on Monday that he won’t seek a fourth term opens up a 2020 Senate seat in a state President Donald Trump carried by 26 points in 2016. As the founder of preventative health nonprofit Healthy Tennessee, Sethi has traveled across the state holding health fairs and clinics, while learning how the opioid crisis has affected people.

GOP Rep. David Kustoff, who was elected to the open 8th District in 2016, is interested. Alexander had also pushed back against recent comments from Green suggesting a link between autism and vaccines. He also worked in the George H.W. “That will not be the deterrent.”. His parents became the first doctors in the community, he says. A state senator who easily won Tennessee’s open 7th District last month, Green is a retired Army flight surgeon who wrote a book about treating Saddam Hussein after his capture. “As a U.S. senator, my first thing is going to be, how do we give control back to the mayor in Dandridge and Jefferson County,” he said. Regarding the opioid crisis, Sethi said as a U.S. senator, he would look to refocus the attention the Department of Education has placed on public information programs to adding mental health counselors to schools. And that’s why I want to do this,” he said. “I support the president,” he said. Sethi said he believes in fiscal and individual responsibility and, as the Republican Party moves away from those values, it is losing its core. 2020 Elections in YELLOW. Like Blackburn, President Donald Trump endorsed Kustoff for the 2018 midterm elections. Kustoff, who has represented Tennessee’s 8th Congressional District since 2017, will “explore the potential of running” for Senate, his office said.

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