Far-right candidate Andy Ogles wins GOP primary for Nashville U.S. House seat
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Andy Ogles, a far-right county mayor, won Tennessee's crowded Republican primary on Thursday in a reconfigured congressional district in left-leaning Nashville that the party is hoping to flip in November. In a warning ahead of the general election, he said, "Liberals, we're coming for you."
Ogles, the Maury County mayor and onetime leader of the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity's state chapter, emerged among nine candidates after a hard-fought primary for the state's 5th Congressional District. The seat drew heavy interest from Republicans after GOP state lawmakers carved Nashville into three districts, leading incumbent Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper to announce his retirement.
"We're at war. This is a political war, a cultural war, and it's a spiritual war," Ogles said in his victory speech. "And as we go forward, we've got to get back to honoring God and country."
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