LIVE PRIMARY RESULTS: Tennessee Waltzes Into New Congressional Map
Welcome to A Very Special Thursday episode of As the Midterms Turn. Or is it The Dumb and the Useless? All My Children might actually fit with the emergence of the Democratic Socialists who get triggered by Thanksgiving, Culver's, old white people, and ... [checks notes] ... oh yeah, the Joooooos.
Well, I have good news for readers tonight – none of that applies to the Tennessee primaries tonight. At least, all of that sits in the background of a contest that will completely reshape the Volunteer State's House contingent. The state legislature passed a new congressional map this year that eliminates the majority-black district represented for the last 20 years by ... [checks notes again] ... Rep. Steve Cohen. Cohen tried to sue to stop the map from becoming official, and then wisely decided to retire rather than run in a competitive district.
Tonight, everything old is new again, at least in House races. Or at least it is in Memphis, where Cohen's old district got split up between thre…