Former Tennessee agriculture commissioner Charlie Hatcher knocks Andy Ogles out of 5th District race • Tennessee Lookout
$2M ad campaign from outside group helped unseat U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, a Trump loyalist endorsed by the president
Former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher knocked U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles out of the race for Tennessee’s 5th District in the Republican primary on Aug. 6, 2026. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner and farmer Charlie Hatcher unseated Trump-endorsed U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles Thursday, a shocking upset in the state’s 5th District Republican primary.
Hatcher had secured 53.2% of the vote to Ogles’ 46.8% when the Associated Press called the race at 9:10 p.m., knocking the two-term congressman out of the race to represent the newly redrawn district that stretches from wealthy Williamson County suburbs to rural West Tennessee farmland through low-income neighborhoods in Memphis.
The contours of the district changed drastically after Tennessee legislators redrew it in May in hopes of ensuring Republican victories in all the s…