Marsha Blackburn | |
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_official_headshot_-_116th_Congress.jpg) Official portrait, 2019 | |
| United States Senator fromTennessee | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2019 Serving with Bill Hagerty | |
| Preceded by | Bob Corker |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromTennessee's7th district | |
| In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Ed Bryant |
| Succeeded by | Mark Green |
| Member of theTennessee Senate from the23rd district | |
| In office January 12, 1999 – January 3, 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Keith Jordan |
| Succeeded by | Jim Bryson |
| Executive Director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission | |
| In office February 1995 – June 1997 | |
| Governor | Don Sundquist |
| Preceded by | Dancy Jones |
| Succeeded by | Anne Pope |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mary Marsha Wedgeworth (1952-06-06)June 6, 1952 (age 73) Laurel, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Mississippi State University (BS) |
| Website | Senate website Campaign website |
Mary Marsha Blackburn (néeWedgeworth; born June 6, 1952)[1] is an American politician and businesswoman serving as theseniorUnited States senator fromTennessee. Blackburn was first elected to the Senate in 2018. A member of theRepublican Party, Blackburn was astate senator from 1999 to 2003 and representedTennessee's 7th congressional district in theUnited States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019, during which time theNational Journal rated her among the House's most conservative members.
A supporter of theTea Party movement, Blackburn is a staunch ally of PresidentDonald Trump. She opposes abortion,same-sex marriage, and theAffordable Care Act. On November 6, 2018, Blackburn became the first woman to beelected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee, defeating Democratic formerTennessee GovernorPhil Bredesen. Blackburn became the state's senior senator in January 2021 upon the retirement of SenatorLamar Alexander. Upon the retirement of CongressmanJim Cooper in 2023, she became the dean ofTennessee's congressional delegation. She won reelection to a second Senate term in2024 against Democratic nomineeGloria Johnson.
In August 2025, Blackburn announced her candidacy forgovernor of Tennessee in2026.
Marsha Wedgeworth was born inLaurel, Mississippi, to Mary Jo (Morgan) and Hilman Wedgeworth, who worked in sales and management.[2] She placed fourth during a beauty pageant in high school.[3]
Blackburn attendedMississippi State University on a4-H scholarship, earning aBachelor of Science inhome economics in 1974.[4][5][6][7] Blackburn was elected both as secretary and president of the Associated Women Students at Mississippi State University.[8][9][10]
In 1973, before graduating from college, Blackburn worked as a sales manager for theTimes Mirror Company. From 1975 to 1978, she worked in theCastner Knott Division of Mercantile Stores, Inc. In 1978, she became the owner of Marketing Strategies, a promotion-event management firm. As of 2016, Blackburn continued to run this business.[6]
Blackburn was a founding member of theWilliamson CountyYoung Republicans.[7] She was chair of the Williamson County Republican Party from 1989 to 1991.[7][11][12] In 1992, she ran forCongress inTennessee's 6th congressional district, losing to incumbentBart Gordon, and was a delegate to the1992 Republican National Convention.[7] In 1995, Blackburn was appointed executive director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission byTennessee governorDon Sundquist, holding that post through 1997.[13][7][14]
Blackburn was a member of theTennessee Senate from 1999 to 2003, and rose to be minoritywhip.[15][5] In 2000, she took part in the effort to prevent the passage of astate income tax bill.[7]
Redistricting after the2000 census moved Blackburn's home from the 6th district into the 7th district, and created a gerrymandered district that stretched for 200 miles from easternMemphis to southwestNashville.[16][7] In 2002, Blackburn ran in the Republican primary for this congressional seat. Of the four main candidates, she was the only one from the Nashville suburbs. The other three (Mark Norris,David Kustoff, and Brent Taylor) were all from Memphis or its suburbs.[17] Blackburn was endorsed by the conservativeClub for Growth.[18] The three Memphians split the vote in that area, and she won the primary by nearly 20 percentage points.[19]
In the general election, Blackburn defeated Democratic nominee Tim Barron with 70% of the vote.[20] She was the fourth woman elected to Congress from Tennessee, and the first woman elected to Congress from Tennessee who did not succeed her husband.[21] She was reelected seven times.[22]
Blackburn served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019.[23] During her House tenure, theNational Journal rated her among the House's most conservative members.[7]
In November 2007, Blackburn unsuccessfully ran for Republican conference chair.[24][25][26] She was a senior advisor onMitt Romney's2008 presidential campaign, before resigning her position in the Romney campaign and endorsingFred Thompson for president.[27][28] Blackburn was an assistant whip in Congress from 2003 to 2005, as well as deputy whip from 2005.[29][30][31][32]
Committee assignments
In October 2017, Blackburn announced her candidacy for the Senate seat being vacated byBob Corker. In her announcement, she said that House Republicans were frustrated with Senate Republicans, who they believed acted like Democrats on important issues, including Obamacare.[37][38] In the announcement, Blackburn called herself a "hardcore, card-carrying Tennessee conservative", said she was "politically incorrect", and noted with pride that liberals had called her a "wingnut".[39] She dismissed compromise and bipartisanship, saying "No compromise, no apologies."[39] She also said that she carried a gun in her purse.[39] On August 2, Blackburn received 610,302 votes (84.48%) in the Republican primary, winning the nomination.[40]
Blackburn largely backed PresidentDonald Trump's policies,[41][42] including a U.S.–Mexico border wall,[43] and shared his opinion ofNational Football League national anthem protests.[44] Trump and Vice PresidentMike Pence endorsed her. During the campaign, Blackburn pledged to support Trump's agenda and suggested that Democratic nomineePhil Bredesen would not.[45]
For most of the campaign, polls showed the two candidates nearly tied. But afterBrett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Blackburn pulled ahead. Some believe the hearings mobilized Republican voters in the state,[46] even though Democrats won the House. Blackburn won the election with 54.7% of the vote to Bredesen's 43.9%, an unexpectedly large margin. She carried all but three counties in the state (Davidson,Shelby, andHaywood), the most counties ever won in an open Senate election in Tennessee.[47]
On August 1, 2024, Blackburn and Democratic state representativeGloria Johnson won their respective party nominations.[48] This was the first all-woman general election for a Tennessee Senate seat.[49]
Blackburn was reelected with 63.8% of the vote to Johnson's 34.2%. She carried all but two counties in the state (Davidson andShelby).
There was speculation that Blackburn could be Donald Trump's running mate inhis 2024 presidential campaign,[50][51] but Trump instead choseJD Vance.
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Blackburn was sworn in as a U.S. senator on January 3, 2019. She is the first woman in history to represent Tennessee in the U.S. Senate.[52] UponLamar Alexander's retirement in 2021, Blackburn became the senior U.S. senator from Tennessee.[53]
Committee assignments[54]
On August 6, 2025, Blackburn announced that she would run forgovernor of Tennessee in2026.[55]
Blackburn is aTea Party Republican.[56] She has been called staunchly conservative,[39][57][58][59] and has sometimes attended functions of, and met with leaders of, far-right groups.[60] She has called herself "a hard-core, card-carrying Tennessee conservative."[61]
GovTrack estimated Blackburn to be the most ideologically conservative member of the Senate in the 2019 legislative year.[62] In 2024, Blackburn served as chairperson for theRepublican National Committee's official party platform.[63]
Blackburn staunchlyopposesabortion and sought to overturnRoe v. Wade.[64][65][39] In 2013, she was chosen to manage debate on a bill promoted by House Republicans that would have prohibited abortions after 22 weeks' gestation, with limited exceptions for rape or incest.[66] She replaced the bill's prior sponsor, U.S. RepresentativeTrent Franks, after Franks made controversial and dubious statements.[67][68]
In 2015, Blackburn led a panel that investigated thePlanned Parenthood undercover video controversy, in which anti-abortion activists published a video purporting to show that Planned Parenthood illicitly sold fetal tissue. Subsequent investigations into Planned Parenthood found no evidence of fetal tissue sales or of wrongdoing,[69] but in 2017, when Blackburn announced that she was running for Senate, she ran a controversial advertisement saying that she "fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts".[69][70][71] In 2015, Blackburn claimed that 94% of Planned Parenthood's business revolves around abortion services, whichFactCheck.org found to be misleading and that "no one can say for sure what the percentage is".[72]
In March 2016, Blackburn chaired the Republican-led Select Investigative Panel, a committee convened to "explore the ethical implications of using fetal tissue in biomedical research".[73] Democrats on the panel characterized the probe as a politically motivated witch hunt.[73]
In 2009, Blackburn sponsored legislation requiring presidential candidates to show their birth certificates. The bill was in response toconspiracy theories, commonly known as "birther" theories, that alleged thatBarack Obama was not born in the United States. Her spokesperson said that Blackburn did not doubt that Obama was an American citizen.[74][75]
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In December 2020, Blackburn posted, "China has a 5,000-year history of cheating and stealing. Some things will never change..." on her Twitter account.[76][77] The European Union bureau chief for China's state-ownedChina Daily,Chen Weihua, responded by tweeting, "This is the most racist and ignorant US Senator I have seen. A lifetime bitch".[78][77] In what appeared to be a thinly veiled reference to Chen, Blackburn asserted in response that the U.S. would "not bow down to sexist communist thugs". One of Chen's tweets was, with an apparently sarcastic comment, retweeted by Republican SenatorMarco Rubio.[79] The Chinese American rights group Tennessee Chinese American Alliance protested Blackburn's comments as insulting to the Chinese community.[80]
In August 2022, Blackburn led a congressional delegation toTaiwan, where she met withTaiwanese PresidentTsai Ing-wen. Her delegation was the third such delegation to visit Taiwan followingSpeaker Nancy Pelosi's visit early that month. During her visit, Blackburn voiced support for Taiwan, calling it an "independent nation" and a "country", and also supported furtherU.S.-Taiwan relations and combating the "NewAxis of Evil", which she defines asIran,Russia, andNorth Korea, led by China. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and condemns most visits by U.S. lawmakers.[81][82][83][84]
In July 2023, Blackburn criticized the movieBarbie for "bending to Beijing to make a quick buck" after it was alleged the film contained a map of the world displaying thenine-dash line, aterritorial claim by China to theSouth China Sea that the international community rejects. In a statement addressing like criticisms,Warner Bros.,Barbie's production company, said the map was a "child-like crayon drawing . . . not intended to make any type of statement".[85]
In 2024, Blackburn was targeted by theChinese government'sSpamouflage influence operation.[86]
In October 2023, Blackburn voiced support forIsrael during theGaza war, saying, "The United States has a moral obligation to defend Israel, and as Israel is surrounded by hostile actors funded by Iran who seek the destruction of the Jewish state and deny its right to exist, that's a solemn responsibility."[87]
Blackburnrejects thescientific consensus on climate change. In a 2014 debate with science communicatorBill Nye, Blackburn rejected the science and urgency of the issue, claiming that there is "no consensus" in the scientific community about the causes of climate change.[88]
In March 2022, Blackburn calledGriswold v. Connecticut, a landmark Supreme Court decision holding that the Constitution protects the liberty of married couples to buy and use contraceptives without government restriction, "constitutionally unsound" as a ruling that "gave the court permission to bypass our system of checks and balances".[89]
Blackburn strongly supportsDonald Trump.[57]
In November 2016, Blackburn joined Trump'spresidential transition team as vice chair.[90] She was a staunch supporter of his and backed most of his policies and proposals.[39][42][61] She nominated him for aNobel Peace Prize for his negotiations withNorth Korea.[61][91]Vox speculated that Blackburn's ties to Trump, who won Tennessee in the 2016 election by 26 points, helped boost her Senate candidacy.[92]
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During Trump's first Senate impeachment trial, Blackburn left the chamber for a television interview.[93] She also garnered attention by reading a book during the proceedings.[94] Blackburn spent time during the trial to tweet aboutAlexander Vindman, calling him unpatriotic for allegedly "badmouth[ing] and ridicul[ing]" the U.S. in front of Russia.[95][96] In November 2019, #MoscowMarcia started trending on Twitter after Blackburn tweeted allegations against Vindman on her Twitter account.[97]The Week characterized her tweet as a "conspiratorial smear".[98] In her post, she wrote "Vindictive Vindman is the 'whistleblower's' handler".[99] The tweet was in reference to Vindman, a decorated army official andPurple Heart veteran, who became a central figure in Trump's impeachment proceedings in Congress after testifying he heard Trump pressure thepresident of Ukraine to investigate the son of one of his chief political rivals, former Vice PresidentJoe Biden.[100]
After Biden won the2020 United States presidential election, Blackburn supported Trump's false claims of victory and raised funds to support the Trump campaign's effort tooverturn the election results in court.[101] In an interview on November 20, she briefly called Biden the "president-elect" but later retracted this as a mistake.[101] On January 2, 2021, Blackburn and 10 other Republican senators announced that they would vote to oppose certification of the results of the election on January 6, the joint session of Congress in which the certification of a presidential election occurs, citing false allegations of widespreadelection fraud, irregularities, and unconstitutional changes to voting laws and voting restrictions. But after a mob of Trump supportersviolently stormed Capitol Hill that day, she voted to certify the results of the election.[102][103][104]
In May 2021, Blackburn abstained from voting on the creation of theJanuary 6 commission.[105]
In 2021, when President Biden proposed universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds and subsidized child care for low- and middle-income families, Blackburn likened the proposal to the communist policies of the Soviet Union.[106] She also falsely claimed that the Biden administration proposed to put children in pre-K even if their parents did not want to send them there.[107]
Blackburn was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of theFiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which raised the U.S. debt ceiling.[108]
After the2018 Thousand Oaks shooting on November 7, 2018, which resulted in 12 deaths, Blackburn responded to a question about the shooting in aFox News interview by saying, "how do we make certain that we protect theSecond Amendment and protect our citizens? We've always done that in this country. Mental health issues need to be addressed."[109]
In March 2023, California GovernorGavin Newsom criticized Blackburn for accepting over $1 million in campaign donations from theNational Rifle Association of America and voting against gun control measures, including theBipartisan Safer Communities Act, which passed in 2022.[110]
Blackburn opposed theAffordable Care Act (Obamacare), saying upon its passage, "freedom dies a little bit today."[39][111] She supported efforts to repeal the legislation.[112] In 2017, while arguing for its repeal, Blackburn falsely said that two of its popular provisions (protections for people with preexisting conditions and allowing adult children to be on their parents' health plans until they're 26) "were two Republican provisions which made it into the bill."[113] In her declaration that she would run for theSenate in 2018, she said that the failure to repeal the ACA was "a disgrace".[114]
At October 2013 congressional hearings on the ACA, Blackburn said the website healthcare.gov violatedHIPAA andhealth information privacy rights. The next day, when aCNN interviewer pointed out that the only health-related question the site asked was "do you smoke?", Blackburn repeated her criticism of the site for violating privacy rights.[115]
According toThe New York Times in 2017, Blackburn's best-known legislation was her co-sponsorship of a bill that revised the legal standard theDrug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had used to establish that "a significant and present risk of death or serious bodily harm that is more likely than not to occur", rather than the previous tougher standard of "imminent danger", before suspending the manufacturer's opioid drug shipments.[116][61] The legislation passed the House and the Senate unanimously, but was criticized in internal Justice Department documents and by the DEA's chief administrative law judge as hampering DEA enforcement actions against drug distribution companies engaging in black-market sales.[116] Joe Rannazzisi, who had led the DEA's Office of Diversion Control, said he informed Blackburn's staffers what the effects of a 2016 law she co-sponsored would be. Blackburn said her bill had "unintended consequences", but Rannazzisi said they should have been anticipated. He said that during a July 2014 conference call he told congressional staffers the bill would cause more difficulties for the DEA if it pursued corporations that were illegally distributing such drugs.[117] Blackburn and RepresentativeTom Marino, the main co-sponsor of her House bill, sent a letter requesting an Office of Inspector General investigation about Rannazzisi, saying he tried to intimidate Congress in the July conversation. Rannazzisi said he was removed from his DEA position in August 2015.[117]
Blackburn supported Trump's 2017executive order imposing a temporary travel and immigration ban barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.[118] She has often expressed support of Trump'simmigration policy, especially his plan to greatly expand theMexico–United States barrier.[119] In March 2021, Blackburn visited the southern border of the United States with several other Republican senators; she accused President Biden of encouraging a surge of illegal immigration.[120]
Blackburn opposessame-sex marriage[39][121] and in 2004 and 2006 voted for proposed constitutional amendments to ban it.[122] Of the Supreme Court's 2015 decision inObergefell v. Hodges, Blackburn said, "Despite this decision, no one can overrule the truth about what marriage actually is—a sacred institution between a man and a woman."[123] In 2010, she voted against repealing the military'sDon't Ask, Don't Tell policy.[124]
During her tenure as a representative, Blackburn sought to removeKevin Jennings, a gay man who worked in theUnited States Department of Education, saying that Jennings "has played an integral role in promoting homosexuality and pushing a pro-homosexual agenda in America’s schools".[125]
In 2013, Blackburn voted to reauthorize theViolence Against Women Act in the House,[126] but voted against the Senate's version of the act, which expanded VAWA to apply to people regardless of sexual orientation.[122] She argued that increasing the number of targets for VAWA funding would "dilute the money that needs to go into the sexual assault centers, domestic abuse centers, [and] child advocacy centers",[127] and said VAWA ought to remain focused on supporting women's shelters and facilitating law enforcement against crimes against women, rather than addressing other groups or issues.[128]
Blackburn voted against theEmployment Non-Discrimination Act to ban discrimination against LGBT employees.[122] In August 2019, she co-signed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court arguing thatTitle VII of theCivil Rights Act of 1964 does not prohibit employment discrimination based upon sexual orientation or gender identity.[129][130]
On October 26, 2020, Blackburn voted to confirmAmy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States. Barrett was confirmed by a vote of 52–48.[131] Blackburn wore a mask that read "Grin and Barrett" to the Senate vote.[132]
On March 22, 2022, during the confirmation hearings forSupreme Court nomineeKetanji Brown Jackson, Blackburn asked Jackson to define the word "woman". "'I can’t—' Jackson replied. 'You can’t?' Blackburn said. 'Not in this context. I’m not a biologist,' Jackson said. 'The meaning of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can’t give me a definition?' Blackburn asked."[133][134] On April 7, 2022, the Senate voted 53–47 to confirm Jackson to the Supreme Court; Blackburn voted against Jackson's confirmation.[135]
Blackburn has advocated increased regulation of technology companies and criticized alleged anti-conservative bias on major platforms.[136] In June 2018, she published an op-ed arguing for greater oversight and restrictions on tech companies that sparked a vocal backlash amongGoogle employees.[137] During a 2020Commerce Committee hearing in which she claimed that tech companies stifle free speech, Blackburn asked Google chiefSundar Pichai about the employment status of an employee who had criticized her.[138][136][139]
In the117th United States Congress, Blackburn introduced the bipartisanOpen App Markets Act alongside SenatorsRichard Blumenthal andAmy Klobuchar. The legislation is intended to curbApple andGoogle, the operators of theApp Store andGoogle Play, from engaging inanti-competitive behavior inapp markets.[140][141] Blackburn also worked with Blumenthal to introduce children's online child safety legislation, known as theKids Online Safety Act (KOSA).[142]
Blackburn opposesnet neutrality in the United States, calling it "socialistic".[39][143] She opposesmunicipal broadband initiatives that aim to compete withInternet service providers.[144][145] She supported bills that restrict municipalities from creating their own broadband networks, and wrote a bill to prevent theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) frompreempting state laws that blocked municipal broadband.[146][147]
In 2017, Blackburn introduced to the House a measure to dismantle an Obama-administration online privacy rule that the FCC adopted in October 2016.[148] Her measure, which was supported bybroadband providers but criticized by privacy advocates, repealed the rule that required broadband providers to obtain consumers' permission before sharing their online data, including browsing histories.[148][149] The measure passed the House in a party-line vote in March 2017, after a similar measure passed the Senate the same week.[148] She subsequently proposed legislation that expanded the requirement to include internet companies as well as broadband providers.[150] As of 2017, Blackburn had accepted at least $693,000 in campaign contributions from telecom companies.[151][152]
In 2009, Blackburn voted against theLilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and thePaycheck Fairness Act.[153]
Marsha married Chuck Blackburn in 1974.[7][154] They live inBrentwood, a suburb of Nashville in Williamson County,[31] and have two children.[7] She is aPresbyterian and a member ofChrist Presbyterian Church.[35]
Blackburn is a member ofThe C Street Family, a prayer group that includes members of Congress.[155] She is a former member of theSmithsonian Libraries Advisory Board.[31]
Blackburn is the author ofThe Mind of a Conservative Woman: Seeking the Best for Family and Country. The book was published on September 1, 2020, byWorthy Books.[156]
| Year | Democratic | Votes | Pct | Republican | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Bart Gordon(incumbent) | 120,177 | 57% | Marsha Blackburn | 86,289 | 41% | H. Scott Benson | Independent | 5,952 | 3% |
| Year | Democratic | Votes | Pct | Republican | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | [b] | Tim Barron | 51,790 | 26% | Marsha Blackburn | 138,314 | 71% | Rick Patterson | Independent | 5,423 | 3% | |||
| 2004 | (no candidate) | Marsha Blackburn(incumbent) | 232,404 | 100% | ||||||||||
| 2006 | [c] | Bill Morrison | 73,369 | 32% | Marsha Blackburn(incumbent) | 152,288 | 66% | Kathleen A. Culver | Independent | 1,806 | 1% | |||
| 2008 | Randy Morris | 98,207 | 31% | Marsha Blackburn(incumbent) | 214,214 | 69% | ||||||||
| 2010 | Greg Rabidoux | 54,341 | 25% | Marsha Blackburn(incumbent) | 158,892 | 72% | J.W. Stone | Independent | 6,319 | 3% | ||||
| 2012 | Credo Amouzouvik | 61,050 | 24% | Marsha Blackburn(incumbent) | 180,775 | 71% | Howard Switzer | Green | 4,584 | 2% | ||||
| 2014 | Daniel Cramer | 42,280 | 26.8% | Marsha Blackburn(incumbent) | 110,534 | 69.9% | Leonard Ladner | Independent | 5,093 | 3.2% | ||||
| 2016 | Tharon Chandler | 65,226 | 23.5% | Marsha Blackburn(incumbent) | 200,407 | 72.2% | Leonard Ladner | Independent | 11,880 | 4.3% |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Marsha Blackburn | 1,227,483 | 54.71% | −10.18% | |
| Democratic | Phil Bredesen | 985,450 | 43.92% | +13.51% | |
| Independent | Trudy Austin | 9,455 | 0.42% | N/A | |
| Independent | Dean Hill | 8,717 | 0.39% | N/A | |
| Independent | Kris L. Todd | 5,084 | 0.23% | N/A | |
| Independent | John Carico | 3,398 | 0.15% | N/A | |
| Independent | Breton Phillips | 2,226 | 0.10% | N/A | |
| Independent | Kevin Lee McCants | 1,927 | 0.09% | N/A | |
| Total votes | 2,243,740 | 100.00% | N/A | ||
| Republicanhold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Marsha Blackburn (incumbent) | 1,918,743 | 63.80% | +9.09% | |
| Democratic | Gloria Johnson | 1,027,461 | 34.16% | −9.76% | |
| Independent | Tharon Chandler | 28,444 | 0.95% | N/A | |
| Independent | Pamela Moses | 24,682 | 0.82% | N/A | |
| Independent | Hastina Robinson | 8,278 | 0.28% | N/A | |
| Total votes | 3,007,608 | 100.00% | |||
Adam Schiff is hailing Alexander Vindman as an American patriot.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Twitter Monday night for voting against gun safety laws and accepting over $1 million in donations from the NRA over her career after the senator tweeted she was "ready to assist" in the wake of the deadly elementary school shooting in Nashville.
I didn't like the way it was expanded to include other different groups...What you need is something that is focused specifically to help the shelters and to help out law enforcement who is trying to work with the crimes that have been committed against women and helping them to stand up
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States).
Blackburn has waged a relentless campaign against the FCC's policy safeguarding net neutrality, the principle that all internet content should be equally accessible, which she has disparaged as "socialistic."
Blackburn has also been a major recipient of financial support from the nation's largest telecom and cable companies.
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