Blackburn's partisan ideology has not enough support bases in "establishment-oriented" East Tennessee where is the state's traditional Republican heartland, and in 2006 GOP primary Corker defeated her predecessor former congressman Ed Bryant by 14 percentage points.
Blackburn's partisan ideology has not enough support bases in "establishment-oriented" East Tennessee where is the state's traditional Republican heartland. GOP primary Corker defeated her predecessor former congressman Ed Bryant by 14 percentage points. This was in 2006.