Trump-backed House candidate faces backlash from Tennessee Republicans
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Republican state legislators and party officials in Tennessee are using every conceivable tool to try to throw a House candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump off the ballot, passing a new residency requirement for congressional candidates and challenging her Republican bona fides.
Neither effort is likely to keep Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokesperson, out of the Republican primary for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District. But both illustrate a willingness by GOP officials in the state to rebuke Trump's handpicked candidate in one of the reddest states in the country.
Ortagus, who moved to the Nashville area only last year from Washington, DC, has taken the carpetbagger attacks seriously as she competes against 11 other Republicans for a Middle Tennessee seat redrawn to favor the GOP. Ortagus' allies are suing the state over the residency bill and working to overturn a separate effort by some state GOP officials to remove her from the ballot.
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