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Twitter initially told the candidate’s vendors that the statement was “inflammatory,” but the company reconsidered after viewing “the ad in the context of the entire message.”
Blackburn in the ad boasts that she “stopped the sale of baby body parts.” Twitter found that statement to be inflammatory and “likely to evoke a strong negative reaction.”
Fincher is a 44-year-old gospel singing farmer from the rural western Tennessee community of Frog Jump.
Candidates must now have voted in three out of the last four GOP state or federal level primaries.
A Montgomery County Primary Election was added after the school calendar for the year was set.
Elected to the State Senate in 2012, Green was nominated earlier this year by President Donald Trump to serve as Secretary of the Army before withdrawing.
Just before Blackburn made her run for Senate official, Governor Bill Haslam announced he won’t be doing the same.
A statement from Haslam said he wants to focus on his remaining time as governor.