{"id":16192,"date":"2025-12-03T02:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-fall-short-of-flipping-deep-red-house-seat-in-surprisingly-competitive-tennessee-special-election\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:47:05","slug":"dems-fall-short-of-flipping-deep-red-house-seat-in-surprisingly-competitive-tennessee-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dems-fall-short-of-flipping-deep-red-house-seat-in-surprisingly-competitive-tennessee-special-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems fall short of flipping deep-red House seat in surprisingly competitive Tennessee special election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Republican Matt Van Epps won a Tennessee House special election on Tuesday, but Democrat Aftyn Behn significantly cut into GOP margins in the district, continuing a streak of overperformances this year.<\/p>\n<p>National outside groups poured millions into the race, as Republicans grew concerned about a potential upset.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump carried the district by 22 points last fall, but voters\u2019 dissatisfaction with cost of living helped Behn trim that margin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Matt Van Epps won a Tennessee House special election on Tuesday, but Democrat Aftyn Behn significantly cut into GOP margins in the district, continuing a streak of overperformances this year. National outside groups poured millions into the race, as Republicans grew concerned about a potential upset. President Donald Trump carried the district by 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}