Dec. 3, 2025 . Curtis Houck

Despite Republican Matt Van Epps winning Tuesday’s special election for the Tennessee Seventh Congressional District by nearly nine points and neatly in line with the Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+10, the major broadcast networks giddily touted the results Wednesday as proof of a Democrat wave in next years midterms because Van Epps failed to win by 22 points like President Trump did.

The networks also continued their ongoing failure to mention Democrat candidate Aftyn Behn’s history of controversial comments, including her calls to defund the police and avowed hatred of Nashville, a city partially inside said district she ran to represent.

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