Aaron James (Tennessee)
Aaron James (independent) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Tennessee. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
James completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Aaron James was born in Memphis, Tennessee.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020
United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020 (August 6 Democratic primary)
United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020 (August 6 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Tennessee
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Tennessee on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bill Hagerty (R) | 62.2 | 1,840,926 |
 | Marquita Bradshaw (D)  | 35.2 | 1,040,691 | |
 | Elizabeth McLeod (Independent) | 0.6 | 16,652 | |
 | Yomi Faparusi (Independent) | 0.4 | 10,727 | |
| Steven Hooper (Independent) | 0.3 | 9,609 | ||
 | Kacey Morgan (Independent) (Unofficially withdrew) | 0.3 | 9,598 | |
 | Ronnie Henley (Independent) | 0.3 | 8,478 | |
 | Aaron James (Independent) | 0.2 | 7,203 | |
 | Eric William Stansberry (Independent) | 0.2 | 6,781 | |
 | Dean Hill (Independent) | 0.2 | 4,872 | |
 | Jeffrey Grunau (Independent) | 0.1 | 4,160 | |
 | John Gentry (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 64 | |
| Total votes: 2,959,761 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tom Kovach (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee
Marquita Bradshaw defeated Robin Kimbrough Hayes, James Mackler, Gary Davis, and Mark Pickrell in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 6, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marquita Bradshaw | 35.5 | 117,962 |
 | Robin Kimbrough Hayes | 26.6 | 88,492 | |
 | James Mackler | 23.8 | 78,966 | |
 | Gary Davis | 9.3 | 30,758 | |
 | Mark Pickrell | 4.8 | 16,045 | |
| Total votes: 332,223 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Diana Onyejiaka (D)
- Tharon Chandler (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 6, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bill Hagerty | 50.8 | 331,267 |
 | Manny Sethi | 39.4 | 257,223 | |
 | George Flinn Jr. | 3.4 | 22,454 | |
 | Jon Henry | 1.2 | 8,104 | |
 | Natisha Brooks | 1.2 | 8,072 | |
 | Byron Bush | 0.8 | 5,420 | |
| Clifford Adkins | 0.8 | 5,316 | ||
 | Terry Dicus | 0.3 | 2,279 | |
 | Tom Emerson Jr. | 0.3 | 2,252 | |
 | David Schuster | 0.3 | 2,045 | |
| John Osborne | 0.3 | 1,877 | ||
 | Roy Cope | 0.3 | 1,791 | |
 | Kent Morrell | 0.3 | 1,769 | |
 | Aaron Pettigrew | 0.2 | 1,622 | |
| Glen Neal | 0.2 | 1,233 | ||
| Total votes: 652,724 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Garrett Nichols (R)
- Johnny Presley (R)
- Larry Crim (R)
- Jim Elkins (R)
- Josh Gapp (R)
- Clyde Benson (R)
- Geoffrey Stokes Nielson (R)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Aaron James completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by James' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am running as an Independent Centrist for US Senate, to show my fellow Tennesseans that regular, decent people still have a place in government. That you don't have to be a gozillionaire or on the take. That there are some of us still out here willing to step up to the plate to do our duty, simply because it's the right thing to do.
Now that the Republicans have chosen their right leaning candidate and the Democrats have chosen their left leaning candidate, I am proud to present myself as the candidate for those 45% of Tennesseans who stand tall and proud in the center. We deserve better than being forced to choose between two political extremes.- For as long as I can remember, America has been in two-party gridlock, wholly concocted and perpetuated by career politicians and their handlers. It is time to bring real political reform to this country, and that starts by electing candidates who, like myself, are motivated to run out of an honest sense of duty and who do not owe blind allegiance to either party.
- Career politicians thrive on an underinformed and undermotivated electorate. It is in their best interest to keep the electorate distracted and divided. It is in their best interest to keep the electorate "dummied down" to the point where they will believe practically anything. YOU, my friends, are that electorate and you are being played.
- We must accept the fact that humans are but one small part of a finite ecosystem. No longer can we afford to treat the planet like a sewage treatment plant. If we care about the world we will be leaving our great-grandchildren, we must act now to implement strict environmental controls across the board.
Our Founding Fathers were motivated by a desire to provide opportunities for individual success that were not dependent on birthright. Never in their wildest dreams could they have envisioned a country where education was treated like the plague. If we are to get our country back on track, we must immediately invest every available dime into education. We don't have to teach our children what to think, or even how to think, as long as we teach them TO think.
I look up to our Founding Fathers. Not in blind allegiance, but in the faith that their ideas, however flawed in initial implementation, are still attainable.
I look up to my pioneer ancestors who, within the sociopolitical realities of their own time, worked to make possible the life I now enjoy.
I look up to those examples of our finer human qualities as can be found in every face I see. And I look up to the vision of the man I someday hope to be, a man as free of doubt and fear as I am able.
This all may sound a bit haughty to some, but it's true. The life we live on the inside, manifests itself in the life we live the real world. Every single aspect of our society is the end result of thousands of years of human activity. It is our jobs, as stewards of the present, to not only right the wrongs of our shared past, but to ensure the best future possible for those generations yet to come. All other endeavors pale in comparison.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 2, 2020
