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TexasTowelie

(124,667 posts) Sun Nov 30, 2025, 10:49 AM Sunday

Can a Democrat win a deep-red Trump district in Tennessee? - CNN

With less than 48 hours to go, both parties have poured millions of dollars into the final stretch of Tuesday's special election in Tennessee's Seventh District, where Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn is trying to flip a district that Donald Trump won by 22 points in 2024.

CNN's Manu Raju speaks with Tennessee state Rep. Aftyn Behn on "Inside Politics."

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Can a Democrat win a deep-red Trump district in Tennessee? - CNN (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sunday OP

Hopefully Mrs Behn can win. Duncanpup Sunday #1

Yes! anciano Sunday #2

I think she would make a great Representative. I hope she hangs a cross around her neck... walkingman Sunday #3

Duncanpup

(15,445 posts)

1. Hopefully Mrs Behn can win.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2025, 11:08 AM

Sunday

https://emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7th-district-2025-special-election-poll/

anciano

(2,073 posts)

2. Yes!

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Sun Nov 30, 2025, 11:45 AM

Sunday

walkingman

(10,205 posts)

3. I think she would make a great Representative. I hope she hangs a cross around her neck...

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Nov 30, 2025, 11:49 AM

Sunday

attends a few church services, and speaks of "family values, law and order, love, and kindness" if she expects to win in the Bible Belt.

Even if her personal life or actions seem to contradict those values, virtue signaling is very attractive to white evangelicals.

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