Republican Matt Van Epps will fill Tennessee’s open 7th District Congressional seat, in the last showdown election of 2025.
Early results are showing 36-year-old liberal state Rep. Democrat Aftyn Behn with an early lead over Republican U.S. Army combat veteran Matt Van Epps in the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District — a stunning development in the area considered safe Republican just a few weeks ago.
Matt Van Epps, who was backed by Trump, is projected to defeat Democrat Aftyn Behn in a congressional district the president won by 22 percentage points in 2024.
Republican Matt Van Epps will win the special US House election for Tennessee’s 7th District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, preventing an upset but emboldening Democrats as they were on track to over-perform in a normally deep-red district.
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President Donald Trump and top Republicans are making a last-ditch push to prevent embarrassment in a hotly contested Tennessee special election for Congress
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Honduras election virtually tied as former president released from US prison
Trump officially pardons ex-Honduran president of drug trafficking conviction
Records from the Federal Bureau of Prisons show that Hernández, the former two-term president of Honduras, was released from West Virginia’s high-security USP Hazelton prison on Monday. The White House also confirmed Tuesday that Trump had issued the pardon.
Trump says he is pardoning Democratic congressman in bribery case
US President Donald Trump has said he will pardon Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar, who was charged last year with accepting around $600,000 (£478,000) in bribes. On social media, Trump said he would issue a "full and unconditional" pardon of the Texas representative and his wife,
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