Bradshaw and Hagerty Meet Again. The 2020 Results Show How Much Tennessee Would Have to Move.

Marquita Bradshaw lost to Bill Hagerty by 800,235 votes six years ago. Their rematch gives voters an unusually clear baseline for measuring whether Tennessee’s statewide political math has changed.

Marquita Bradshaw lost to Bill Hagerty by 800,235 votes six years ago. Their rematch gives voters an unusually clear baseline for measuring whether Tennessee’s statewide political math has changed.

By The Redemption Project Newsroom
Elections / U.S. Senate Desk

Six years after Bill Hagerty and Marquita Bradshaw competed for one of Tennessee’s U.S. Senate seats, voters are getting the rematch.

Hagerty advanced through Thursday’s Republican primary without opposition. Bradshaw won the Democratic nomination, sending the same two major-party candidates toward a Nov. 3 general election. Hagerty enters as the incumbent, while Bradshaw again carries the Democratic nomination she first won in 2020.

The names are familiar.

The more useful question is whether Tennessee has changed enough to produce a different result.

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Start with 800,235 votes

Hagerty defeated Bradshaw in 2020 with 1,840,926 votes, or 62.2%, to Bradshaw’s 1,040,691 votes, or 35.2%. The difference was 800,235 votes.