Republican Brent Taylor won election Thursday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Tennessee's 9th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Justin Pearson. Taylor is a state senator who benefited from a vastly reconfigured congressional district that carved up a majority-Black district in Memphis.
WASHINGTON, United States: Donald Trump, knowing that the US president’s party almost always loses seats in midterm elections, launched an unprecedented push last year for states to redraw congressional district lines in favor of Republicans. The redistricting gambit — a costly…
Fourth District Congressman Scott DesJarlais, who has held the seat since 2011, was upended by the Democratic candidate in Tuesday's election. Rep. DesJarlais lost by 280 votes to Victoria Broderick. The final tally was: The district had recently been reworked, and it…
WZTV Taylor was projected to defeat Democrat Justin J Pearson and independent candidates Dennis Clark and Michelle Davis Head RELATED COVERAGE | Nashville in Focus: Tennessee governor's race, the numbers you should notice Taylor will represent communities across parts of 15 counties:…
Now that most races have been called in the 2026 election, it’s time to evaluate whether President Donald Trump’s effort to pick his voters through mid-decade redistricting paid off. As a reminder, Trump first pushed Texas into redistricting its congressional map…
Republicans failed to gain many seats during Tuesday’s elections after plotting major gerrymandering efforts in several states. President Donald Trump-backed Republican redistricting efforts were intended to win the party as many as a dozen seats in the House, but they…
Democrats have dominated the US midterm elections and are set to take both the House of Representatives and the Senate giving them a swathe of new powers. After the new Congress is sworn in on January 3, they will be able…
Track where super PACs and party committees are spending in contested states, updated hourly. See live money flows across key battlegrounds. Check now. As of Nov. 5, 2026, 3:30 p.m. ET The chart above shows where super PACs and party committees are investing their…
Last year, Donald Trump rolled out what he thought was a surefire strategy to staying in power: Just order big red states to redistrict in the middle of the decade instead of as usual after the Census, so they could…
Democrats won seats in at least 12 districts that Republicans had redrawn in large-scale gerrymandering efforts. On Tuesday, Democrats won seats in at least 12 districts that Republicans had redrawn in large-scale gerrymandering efforts pushed by President Donald Trump and the GOP…
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