A special election happened yesterday in Tennessee’s 18th Senatorial district. The district was held by the odious Mae Beavers, who is a homophobic, Islamicphobic, die-hard Trump supporter. Beavers vacated her Senate seat in order to run for TN- Governor. Trump carried her district by 50 points in 2016.

Although, the Democratic candidate, Mary Alice Carfi, lost by a slim 308 votes, she carried 3 of the 6 counties: Dekalb, Clay and Smith.

I’ll consider this a win. 2018 is just around the corner. This has energized the Democratic base. Congratulations to Mary Alice for a great race, all the volunteers, and my friend and great organizer, Jordan Wilkins, for carrying people to the polls and working his duff off and especially the TNDP. Whoot!!

Sources: WJLE, TNDP, Mary ALice Carfi