{"id":156415,"date":"2025-12-03T01:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=156415"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:45:21","slug":"how-far-can-democrats-ride-the-affordability-argument-a-progressive-running-in-deep-red-tennessee-is-about-to-find-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=156415","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How far can Democrats ride the affordability argument? A progressive running in deep-red Tennessee is about to find out&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/29\/politics\/tennessee-special-election-behn-van-epps-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: &#8220;Aftyn Behn, the Democratic nominee for next week\u2019s special election in a heavily Republican Tennessee congressional district, has made affordability concerns a centerpiece of her campaign messaging \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/13\/politics\/democrats-affordability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mirroring the playbook<\/a>&nbsp;of the party\u2019s victorious candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday\u2019s contest is poised to test just how far Democrats can ride that argument in a district that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0carried by 22 points last November&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve always said, I don\u2019t care who you voted for,\u201d Behn told CNN in an interview. \u201cI don\u2019t care what political party you belong to, but if you are upset about the cost of living and the chaos of Washington, then I\u2019m your candidate, and I welcome you with open arms.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The special election has attracted millions of dollars in spending from outside groups and visits from national figures such as former Vice President Kamala Harris, with both parties eyeing it as the last major gauge of the country\u2019s political environment before the calendar turns to 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/26\/politics\/tennessee-special-election-democrats-momentum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/26\/politics\/tennessee-special-election-democrats-momentum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: &#8220;Aftyn Behn, the Democratic nominee for next week\u2019s special election in a heavily Republican Tennessee congressional district, has made affordability concerns a centerpiece of her campaign messaging \u2013&nbsp;mirroring the playbook&nbsp;of the party\u2019s victorious candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey earlier this month. Tuesday\u2019s contest is poised to test just how far Democrats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156416,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156415\/revisions\/156416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}