AP Race Call: Donald Trump wins Tennessee
The state’s two Republican U.S. senators, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, both won their first elections behind endorsements from Trump.
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November 2024
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Trump wins North Carolina and Georgia, GOP reclaims Senate majority
With his earlier win in North Carolina, Donald Trump narrowed Kamala Harris’ pathways to victory and expanded his routes to reaching the 270 electoral votes needed to become the next president.
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Trump wins White House in political comeback
Donald Trump’s victory marks an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago.
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September 2024
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Conaway: In Tennessee, Trump couldn’t vote
“In one of the reddest states in the nation, where Trump will likely win by more votes than Tennessee-based Cracker Barrel has biscuits, Trump couldn’t vote.”
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July 2024
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Local leaders react to deadly shooting at Trump rally
Former President Donald Trump was bloodied, but said he was “fine” Saturday after the most serious attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. The attack at a Pennsylvania political rally left at least two people dead and two critically injured.
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June 2024
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Political Roundup: Pearson’s first regular election; Taylor on Trump; McKinney opens school board campaign
Justin J. Pearson opens his third campaign for the state House in a year and a half. State Senator Brent Taylor reacts to the Trump conviction, and Natalie McKinney opens her challenge of MSCS board chairman Althea Greene.
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May 2024
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New York jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts
Donald Trump has been convicted in his New York hush money trial, a landmark jury verdict making him the first former American president to be found guilty of felony crimes in the nation’s nearly 250-year history.
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March 2024
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DeSoto County primary election holds few surprises
With all 47 precincts in the county reporting, unofficial results indicate the DeSoto voters agreed with the rest of the state in primary races for U.S. president and U.S. Senate.
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February 2024
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Early voting numbers down from 2020, with Democrats on steeper slide
Early voting in the presidential and General Sessions Court clerk primaries ends Feb. 27. Super Tuesday early voting in Shelby County was almost three times higher among Democrats four years ago than it is currently.
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March 2023
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Nelson: For Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, it all started in Memphis
Paul Manafort and Roger Stone were young, politically ambitious, and determined to advance their careers by coming to Memphis for the Young Republican National Convention in 1977.
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July 2022
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Hagerty doubles down on abortion ruling, calls insurrection hearings ‘show trial’
Republican U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty spoke Tuesday, June 28, at the Memphis Rotary Club during a visit to the city that included a defense of former President Donald Trump and a prediction that 2022 midterm elections will produce a “sea change” in Washington. He also visited with the Republican nominee for Shelby County mayor.
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June 2022
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City Council rejects used-car lot on Elvis Presley Boulevard
The council also discussed the riverfront’s Cobblestone Landing, a blight and illegal dumping task force and police escorts for Donald Trump’s Southaven speech.
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Trump teases second run during stop in Southaven
While he never directly stated his plan for the next presidential election, throughout his speech Saturday and again during his closing remarks, Trump hinted at the possibility of a second run in 2024.
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‘Unwelcome wagon,’ Trump’s remarks in Nashville set stage for Southaven visit
The former president, the headliner at a conservative political conference on Saturday, offered a preview during a speech in Nashville of what he is likely to say.
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Sanford: 50 years after Watergate, truth and accountability still matter
Like Richard Nixon, Donald Trump is criminally corrupt and unfit to hold office. Sadly, millions of Americans still refuse to believe the truth.
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City Council Scorecard: Primary strategy, Trump’s escort and Environmental Court
The City Council Scorecard examines a vote on a resolution to deny former President Donald Trump a police escort to his Saturday appearance in Southaven, Mississippi.
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Trump appearance at Landers Center different from past campaign rallies
Prices to attend Saturday’s event range from $9 a person to watch a live feed from an overflow room to a $3,995 “presidential” package that was recently changed to a “buy one, get one free” deal.
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Resolution to deny Trump security fizzles at City Hall
A city council resolution calling for Memphis Police to not get involved in any escort of the former President if he comes through the city later this month didn’t make it to Tuesday’s council agenda.
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Opinion: Debate over Trump security example of ‘low politics’
“The Secret Service coordinates protection detail procedures with law enforcement agencies. A few of our city council members were excited to intervene and put themselves in the middle of federal and local law enforcement’s customary procedures.”
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Letter to the Editor: Denying security to former President Trump is an effort ‘filled with hatred’
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Letter to the Editor: Denying security to former President Trump is an effort ‘filled with hatred’
“America is at a crossroad. We either come together as one or watch this great nation disappear.”
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City Council eyes police pay, Mud Island monorail at end of budget season
The Memphis City Council members could close out its 2022 budget season Tuesday, June 7, with a set of votes on a new property tax rate and operating and capital budgets.
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April 2022
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Trump to hold June rally in Memphis area
The former president tops a bill of conservative figures who plan to hold a day-long conference in the Memphis area.
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December 2021
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Sanford: Blackburn is on Trump’s VP list, but is the conservative stalwart extreme enough?
News outlets continue to lend credence to Donald Trump’s flirtation with seeking a second term in 2024.
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June 2021
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Haslam says Tennessee Republicans at ‘recalibration moment’
The former Tennessee governor talked on The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast about the state’s path to Republican dominance and his call on Christian conservatives to pull away from the nation’s partisan political divide.
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February 2021
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Dunavant to resign as U.S. Attorney
The top federal prosecutor for the Western District of Tennessee, which includes Memphis, was appointed in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump.
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