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

Tennessee’s party primaries offered the first test of a congressional map redrawn in May. Senator Marsha Blackburn won the Republican governor’s nomination, while Trump-backed incumbent Andy Ogles lost the District 5 primary to Charlie Hatcher. The map broke apart Memphis’s majority-Black district and helped set up November’s midterm contests.

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