Justin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seat

Nominees to face off in November in redistricted seat central to Trump’s bid to retain slim Republican majority Tennessee primary voters picked a pair of Memphis-area lawmakers to square off in a dramatically reconfigured US House seat central to Donald Trump’s plan to try to hold on to a slim Republican majority in th

Chaz Molder wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Tennessee's 5th Congressional District

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson won the Democratic primary in the Volunteer State’s newly redrawn 9th Congressional District on Thursday, besting state Sen. London Lamar to advance to the general election. Pearson defeated Lamar by a 40-point margin, winning 64.9% of the vote to the state senator’s 24.9% of the vot

The “Tennessee Three” lawmaker defeated state Sen. London Lamar after a bitter redistricting fight dismantled the state’s longtime majority-Black congressional district.

Republican state Sen. Brent Taylor is projected to face off against state Rep. Justin Pearson (D) for retiring Rep. Steve Cohen’s (D) House seat in Tennessee in the fall – putting the Republican one step closer to joining Congress after the district was redrawn to heavily favor the party, according to Decision Desk HQ.

Live results: Justin Pearson will win Democratic primary in Tennessee’s redrawn 9th District, CNN projects  CNN