Tennessee Redistricting Shapes Primary

Tennessee's new House map drove primary results, setting up Taylor vs. Pearson.

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Inside the results: How redistricting shaped Tennessee’s primary election

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Tennessee’s first congressional primaries under a map redrawn in May produced the defeat of Trump-backed Republican Rep. Andy Ogles and set the November lineup in the newly configured Memphis-area 9th District. Republican legislators split the state’s only majority-Black district in Memphis as part of a plan aimed at giving the GOP a path to all nine U.S. House seats. State Sen. Brent Taylor won the Republican primary in District 9, while state Rep. Justin Pearson won the Democratic nomination.

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