Justin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seat

Nominees to face off in November in redistricted seat central to Trump’s bid to retain slim Republican majority Tennessee primary voters picked a pair of Memphis-area lawmakers to square off in a dramatically reconfigured US House seat central to Donald Trump’s plan to try to hold on to a slim Republican majority in the midterm congressional elections. Republicans chose state senator Brent Taylor, who was endorsed by Trump, to be their nominee in the revamped 9th congressional district. Democrat