Tennessee state Rep. Gloria Johnson, the lone Democratic member of the “ Tennessee Three ” who narrowly survived a GOP-led expulsion effort, launched an exploratory committee as she considers running for the seat held by U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn in 2024.
All three will join their legislative colleagues later this month for a special session to address possible changes to the state’s gun control laws. Republican lawmakers initially declined to do so before adjourning their regular session in April. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who has pushed for changes to keep guns away from people deemed to pose a threat to harm themselves or others, isBlackburn's first Senate race took place in 2018, when she defeated Democratic former Gov.
Blackburn's win, where she also became Tennessee's first female U.S. senator, marked a stark rightward shift in the state's Republican Party leaders. While former GOP senators from the Volunteer State were known for taking more centrist positions, Blackburn launched her senate campaign by touting that she was a “hardcore, card-carrying Tennessee conservative" and aligned herself closely to former President Donald Trump.
In 2021, she vowed to oppose the electoral college results that affirmed President Joe Biden's win, but later backed down after watching the Jan. 6 insurrection unfold from inside the U.S. Capitol. Along with Johnson, Democratic community activist and organizer Marquita Bradshaw has also announced plans to run for Blackburn's seat. Bradshaw won the Democratic Senate nomination in 2020, but later lost to Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty in the general election by 27 percentage points.
“At the urging of Washington liberals, Gloria Johnson has taken another critical step towards joining liberal Democrat Marquita Bradshaw in the Tennessee Senate Democratic Primary," said Blackburn's campaign spokesperson, Abigail Sigler. “Both of them are radical socialists who are aligned with Joe Biden’s failed policies that are making Tennesseans’ lives tougher every day.”
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