Tennessee Republican Party Removes 149 Candidates from May 2026 Primary Ballot

On March 5, the Tennessee Republican Party notified the Secretary of State that it had removed 149 candidates from its May 2026 primary ballot. Many were removed because of a party rule that candidates must have voted in at least three of the last four statewide Republican primary ballots. Many others were removed because they didn’t pay filing fees to the party. These fees are not in state law, but the party promulgated them. The Democratic Party has no such fees. The Republican fees range as high as $5,000 for gubernatorial candidates. See this story.


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Tennessee Republican Party Removes 149 Candidates from May 2026 Primary Ballot — 14 Comments

  1. Real Facts

    “AZ spambot,

    As always, if President Trump was a tyrant, you would be deprogrammed, your programmers would be in prison, and this website would be taken down.”

    Duh!

  2. Not really. Tennessee makes it extremely hard to qualify a party. It’s very easy to get on as an independent, though.

  3. Very poorly executed decision… knocked off our incumbent county mayor, the only Republican on the primary ballot (Hamilton Co.)… LOL,.. reinstated him a few days later, but why did they do that…

  4. Does any human reading this seriously believe that President Trump is more tyrannical than, for example, Cho Bai-Din, Killary Klingon, Barack Insane Osama, Cumala Drunkass, or any currently plausible 2028 candidates? Or for that matter the Bushes, Romney’s, Doles, McCain’s etc? If so, try to logically back up that opinion?

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