James Mackler, a Nashville attorney and decorated Iraq War veteran, is the name you should look for and mark for United States Senate on your state Democratic primary and Hamilton County general election ballot.
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“At this moment, in so many ways, Washington is failing Tennessee,” Mackler said. “We lead the nation in closed rural hospitals per person, opioids continue to ravage our communities (and) there’s no national solution, the trade war hurt our economy more than any other state and you add in COVID-19 and you can see a perfect storm across Tennessee. People want change.”
Mackler said he would work to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, expand Medicaid in Tennessee, stabilize the health care exchanges to bring down costs and protect people with pre-existing health conditions, who could lose their medical insurance if Trump is successful in overturning the Affordable Care Act.
“When we came under fire in Iraq, we weren’t Republicans or Democrats, we were Americans working to accomplish a mission. I approve this message because Senators have a mission too: to serve all of America.”
With early voting for the August primary set to begin in just a week, the contrast in the race for Tennessee’s open U.S. Senate seat continues to offer contrasts between an Iraq war combat veteran stepping forward to serve in a crisis, and an expensive white hot race to the bottom primary that now has the likely Republican nominee offering to put Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore to get elected.
Bill Hagerty’s first statement posted on social media on the Fourth of July advocated for elevating Donald Trump’s likeness atop Mount Rushmore alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
