Statewide Fincher listening tour precedes decision on U.S. Senate run
News release from Stephen Fincher
FROG JUMP, Tenn. – Listening to voters before launching a possible bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Senator Bob Corker, Stephen Fincher will travel the state from Mountain City to Memphis to hear what voters want in their next U.S. Senator.
Fincher will begin the tour in Mountain City on Monday and travel to multiple counties a day meeting with small groups of Tennesseans. The tour will work westward and conclude in Memphis in the coming weeks.
Alexander, Corker favor moving Forrest bust (and a note on the bust history)
U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker say they support moving a bust of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol building to a museum.
Alexander, Corker get 52 percent approval ratings in national polling on U.S. senators
Tennessee’s Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker got identical 52 percent approval in polling by Morning Consult in all 50 states on the popularity of U.S. senators. Both also had 29 percent disapproval ratings.
That puts them, more or less, in the middle of the pack among colleagues nationwide. They are among 20 senators who saw their overall approval rating declined from Morning Consult’s last such survey. (Corker was at 57 percent then; Alexander at 55 percent.)
Nationally, Vermont Democrat Bernie Sanders had the highest approval (75 percent); Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, the lowest (41 percent with 48 percent disapproval). The full report is HERE.
Poll finds more Tennesseans trust Trump than Haslam, Alexander or Corker
A poll conducted by the Office of Consumer Research at Middle Tennessee State University’s Jones College of Business reports that the surveyed Tennesseans trust President Donald Trump a bit more than Gov. Bill Haslam.
Overall, Trump had the trust of 38 percent of those polled and Haslam 35 percent. Both were well ahead of U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (27 percent) and Bob Corker (28 percent). But the two senators were, in turn, well ahead of the U.S. Congress overall (18 percent). There are also some interesting findings on trust of media outlets.
