A primary in which both candidates kept trying to outflank each other on the right was won by the original frontrunner and Trump endorsee
Bill Hagerty wins the race-to-the-hard-right in Tennessee. Photo: AFP via Getty Images In a Republican Senate primary in which both candidates played a competitive game of “I’m crazier than you,” an expected barnburner finish was anticlimactic today, as wealthy businessman Bill Hagerty dispatched wealthy physician Manny Sethi for the GOP nomination to succeed the retiring Lamar Alexander.
As one plugged-in Republican in the state put it, in 2020 “both men are not really running as themselves.” In any other prior political environment, Hagerty probably would be campaigning as more of a business-friendly moderate, while Sethi may not be campaigning as far to the right as he has in denying science-based evidence and medical warnings amid a pandemic.
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