Tennessee — Governor

D Democratic Jerri Green

Supports working family relief and living wages

Green focuses her economic platform on working-family stability, advocating for paid family leave, living wages, and targeted tax relief for everyday necessities. She proposes eliminating state sales taxes on diapers and menstrual products, funding low-income diaper stipends, and deploying TANF funds to erase medical debt.

• Expand paid family and medical leave and support collective bargaining rights.
• End state taxes on diapers and menstrual products while creating a free diaper stipend program for low-income parents.
• Utilize TANF funds to eliminate medical debt for low-income families.
• Invest in small businesses in underserved areas, affordable housing, and statewide passenger rail.

“Real Support for Working Families: Paid family leave. Affordable child care. A real living wage. Because families deserve more than survival - they deserve stability and dignity.”

R Republican Marsha Blackburn

Supports tax cuts and spending reductions

Blackburn promotes economic growth through tax reductions, deregulation, and spending cuts. She signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge and emphasizes fiscal restraint to bolster state business expansion.

• Signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge opposing tax increases.
• Cut wasteful government spending and reduce federal and state regulatory burdens.
• Cut taxes to bolster economic growth and business investment.

“In the Senate, she is working hard to Secure the Border, Grow the Economy, Cut your Taxes, Eliminate Needless Regulations, Support our Veterans, and Fight for our Constitutional Rights, including our always under siege Second Amendment.”

D Democratic Jerri Green

Supports full public funding and opposes vouchers

Green advocates for fully funding public K-12 classrooms, expanding universal pre-K, and increasing access to school nurses and counselors. She explicitly opposes private school vouchers and political interference or censorship in school curricula.

• Fully fund K-12 public education and expand access to counselors, nurses, and support staff.
• Oppose private school vouchers and resist curriculum censorship.
• Launch a Public Service Year Program for high school graduates and establish a Special Education Equity Fund.
• Start a dedicated childcare and early education fund and offer opt-in high school mental health screenings.

“Strong Public Schools: Fully funded classrooms. Respected teachers. Honest education—not censorship and political interference.”

R Republican Marsha Blackburn

Supports parental rights and conservative curriculum reforms

Blackburn centers her education policy on strengthening parental rights, opposing woke or anti-American curricula, and protecting female sports categories. She also supports improving vocational training and higher education.

• Strengthen parental rights in school governance.
• Fight woke and anti-American curriculum in public schools.
• Protect women's sports by restricting female competitions to biological females.
• Improve higher education standards and expand vocational training.

“Fighting woke anti-American curriculum”

D Democratic Jerri Green

Supports stricter gun control measures

As a gun violence survivor and former lead for Tennessee Moms Demand Action, Green advocates for universal background checks, red flag laws, and mandatory gun locks. She opposes permitless carry laws and arming school teachers.

• Enact universal background checks, red flag laws, and safe storage requirements.
• Close the boyfriend loophole and ban the sale of assault rifles.
• Oppose permitless carry laws and arming school teachers.

“I oppose permit-less carry and arming teachers. I support universal background checks, red flag laws, closing the boyfriend loophole, and banning the sale of assault rifles.”

R Republican Marsha Blackburn

Defends Second Amendment and supports strict law enforcement

Blackburn emphasizes protecting constitutional firearm rights against federal and state restrictions while supporting law enforcement to maintain community safety.

• Defend Second Amendment rights against new gun bans and regulations.
• Support law enforcement agencies to keep Tennessee communities safe.

“Keeping our communities safe”

D Democratic Jerri Green

Supports Medicaid expansion and rural hospital preservation

Green champions expanding Medicaid under the ACA to cover working families and prevent rural hospital closures. She also supports legalizing medical and recreational marijuana to broaden treatment options and decrease opioid reliance.

• Expand Medicaid to cover working families and prevent rural hospital closures.
• Protect and improve TennCare coverage.
• Legalize medical and recreational marijuana to expand treatment options and reduce opioid reliance.
• Invest in mental health outreach and addiction recovery services.

“Expand Medicaid to cover more working families and keep rural hospitals open”

R Republican Marsha Blackburn

Supports market-based healthcare reforms

Blackburn serves on the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care and supports market-based healthcare policies over government-managed expansion.

• Serve on Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care to oversee legislative policy.
• Promote conservative, market-based healthcare solutions over federal oversight.

“Ensuring Tennessee remains a safe haven for conservatives”

D Democratic Jerri Green

Supports abortion rights and reproductive healthcare

Green pledges to defend reproductive freedom, restore access to abortion and emergency care, and protect contraception, IVF, and miscarriage management from state interference.

• Defend reproductive freedom and restore access to contraception and emergency care.
• Protect IVF treatments and miscarriage management from state interference.
• Support maternal health equity, particularly for Black women, and require public colleges to provide women's reproductive health services.

“Restore access to reproductive health care, including contraception and emergency care”

R Republican Marsha Blackburn

Supports pro-life conservative protections

Blackburn operates as a social conservative committed to keeping Tennessee a safe haven for conservative values, including pro-life legal protections.

• Support conservative social policies protecting unborn life.
• Maintain Tennessee's status as a conservative safe haven.

“Ensuring Tennessee remains a safe haven for conservatives”

D Democratic Jerri Green

Supports veteran mental health and peer counseling

Green advocates for targeted veteran support services, specifically focusing on expanding mental health outreach and establishing peer-counselor networks.

• Strengthen mental health outreach and peer-counselor networks for veterans.

“Strengthen mental health outreach and peer-counselor networks for veterans”

R Republican Marsha Blackburn

Supports comprehensive military and veteran funding

Blackburn emphasizes her legislative record protecting funding for Fort Campbell's 101st Airborne and expanding vocational training, healthcare, and housing support for military veterans.

• Secured vital training and maintenance funding for the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell.
• Improve veteran vocational training, medical care, and homelessness assistance.
• Serve on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

“She is fully committed to improving the welfare and quality of life for our veterans and their families, our active duty military, and their spouses, which includes everything from vocational training to medical care to addressing homelessness.”

R Republican Marsha Blackburn

Supports strict border security and immigration enforcement

Blackburn prioritizes stopping illegal immigration and securing the southern border, bringing her federal legislative focus on border enforcement to her state platform.

• Stop illegal immigration and secure the southern border.
• Serve on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety.

“Stopping the scourge of Illegal Immigration”

R Republican Marsha Blackburn

Supports aggressive defense stance against China

Blackburn advocates for strong national defense measures and taking a confrontational stance against foreign powers, particularly Communist China, Russia, and North Korea.

• Confront Communist China on trade, technology, and national security.
• Ensure military readiness and prevent foreign adversaries from threatening the U.S. and its allies.

“Confronting Communist China”