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Tenn. Democrat aims for Senate win by edging away from party

Tenn. Democrat aims for Senate win by edging away from party | iNFOnews.ca
In this Sept. 19, 2018, photo, former Tennessee Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen, second from left, talks with workers in his campaign headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. Bredesen is a Democrat. But he'd rather you not mention that. So far his strategy of trying to maintain "independence from all of the national Democratic stuff" is working for the two-term Tennessee governor now running for Senate. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

NASHVILLE – U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen (BRED’-uh-sen) is hoping to win in Tennessee by distancing himself from his own Democratic Party.

Polls show Bredesen leading Republican Marsha Blackburn — a congresswoman — in a state President Donald Trump won by 26 points. Bredesen’s strength is giving Democrats more optimism about their prospects of taking back control of the Senate.

Bredesen is banking on voters looking back favourably on his two terms as governor and his time as Nashville’s mayor. He says Democrats wouldn’t be able to reliably count on his vote in the Senate, and he foresees playing a role like that of Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who’s broken with the GOP on several high-profile issues.

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