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seat in Tennessee – US politics live From Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. **Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are poised to push through a plan later today that would carve up a majority
many as four additional US House seats under Virginia’s redrawn map, as part of an attempt to offset Republican redistricting elsewhere at the urging of President Donald Trump. That ruling, combined with a recent
many southern states and cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Republican House Speaker, Cameron Sexton, maintained the new districts were drawn based on population and politics, not racial data. Republican state Senator John Stevens
Tennessee have promised to do so”. He added: “This should give us one extra seat, and help Save our Country from the Radical Left Democrats, and their Country destroying Policies of High Tax, Open Borders
Tennessee Democrats to win a seat in Congress with the new districts. He added there was a chance the redistricting effort could “backfire on the Republicans” but that would require an “unbelievable registration effort among
Tennessee’s congressional districts now lean Republican. ## **US state department to start revoking passports of parents who owe child support**  Americans outside the US who have their passport revoked will need
Tennessee that could soften the blow they might have suffered without them. ## **The national mood is very much against Republicans right now** The latest [NPR/PBS News/Marist poll](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/06/nx-s1-5810555/trump-iran-gas-prices-midterms-polling) underscores the headwinds
Congressional Leadership Fund and Senate Leadership Fund also have roughly double the cash on hand than their Democratic counterparts. Add in Trump's MAGA Inc., and Republicans have nearly $850 million in the bank
many primaries will be resolved with little drama, some have shaped up to be among the most contentious elections of the year so far, serving as gauges of Donald Trump’s control of Republicans
seat](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5815023/tennessee-redistricting-map-passage). Currently, Tennessee is represented by eight Republicans and one Democrat. The state is the first to redraw its congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court last week weakened the Voting Rights
seat of one of the state’s two Black Democrats in Congress. Alabama [has successfully](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/supreme-court-alabama-republicans-new-congressional-maps) petitioned the US supreme court to allow it to eliminate a district currently represented by a Black
congressional map that would have given Democrats four seats in the House. Democrats can win but maps will continue to change in the coming months, and Republicans are changing election rules to maintain power
Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature [moved last week](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/07/tennessee-congressional-map-redistricting) to eliminate the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district. Louisiana has postponed its state primaries, with its Republican governor and attorney general
Tennessee, [told WUOT](https://www.wuot.org/news/2026-04-10/conservative-think-tank-calls-local-data-center-ban-unconstitutional-in-new-civil-rights-lawsuit). "I think [the county] should fight it. And I hope they do." Loading... In the absence of meaningful legislation at the federal level, and with most states still developing
Tennessee, a congregation of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) and a regular worshipper at the CREC’s Christ Kirk DC plant on Pennsylvania Avenue. CREC founder Douglas Wilson [told the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com