Lamar wins, he has over 50% with 88% in. If he’s held just below 50 when all is said and done, I’ll curse those minor candidates.
Looks like a 1 on 1 CLOSED primary and Carr would have won.
In CD 1 Phil Roe easily beats minor challengers (What do you think of Roe now DJ, he beat David Davis from the left in 2008 but his record seems decent)
In CD 2 Duncan wins by about 20 points, I didn’t know his challenger was that serious.
CD 3 is too close to call, Chuck Fleischmann clinging to a narrow lead over RINO scion Weston Wamp who had a massive rat crossover effort
CD 4 State Sen Tracy clinging to a narrow lead over scumbag (but not RINO)incumbent DesJarlais, minor candidates are costing Tracy
I guarantee a lot of Dems voted in the GOP primary, which would’ve been enough to put Lamar! over 50%. Regardless, it’s a subpar victory for him when you consider how much he outspent Carr, how much more resources and endorsements he had.
Re: TN-1, I don’t care if Roe votes like Jesse Helms, his initial victory rode the wave of Democrat crossover fraud over what was the best voting member from TN. He will never get my endorsement.
Re: TN-3, probably one of the examples of Dems voting in our primary. Wamp Junior has nothing but daddy’s name to his resume.
Re: TN-4. I’ve stuck with DesJarlais regardless and decided to forgive him. What he did over a dozen years ago was terrible, but he has sought to move on from that and distinguish himself in Congress. Despite virtually no support from the TN GOP, he has become the best-voting member from the state. Tracy is just another blow-dried establishment politician (and even as the votes were yet to be finished counting, arrogantly declared victory about 20 or so minutes ago).
Even if Tracy narrowly wins, it is a subpar performance for him and he expected a resounding landslide given that he, like Lamar!, well outspent Dr. D. and had vastly more resources (in his speech, he said his people went to 75,000 households in the district). That he’s virtually tied with DesJarlais at this moment is quite telling. It’s also possible Dems voting in this district went for Dr. D. on the assumption the Democrat might have a chance in November.
Joe Carr’s House seat was won (with a plurality) by the most left-leaning “R” candidate currently running for the State legislature. Three candidates (2 Conservatives) split over 60%+ of the vote.
We also lost the great State Sen. Stacey Campfield in Knoxville to a rich liberal RINO who doesn’t even live in that district (which is illegal, btw).
This is yet an endless example of what I said in post #37. These primaries must be closed and runoffs instituted.
All in all, I’d say that regardless of the closeness of the races, it was a fiasco in TN tonight.