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Gary Davis (Tennessee)
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Gary Davis (Democratic Party) ran for election for President of the United States. He lost as a write-in in the Democratic convention on August 5, 2024.
Davis was a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Tennessee. Davis lost the primary on August 2, 2018.
Davis was a 2016 Democratic candidate for president.[1][2]
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates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)
2018
General election
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Tennessee on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Tennessee
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marsha Blackburn (R) | 54.7 | 1,227,483 |
 | Phil Bredesen (D) | 43.9 | 985,450 | |
| Trudy Austin (Independent) | 0.4 | 9,455 | ||
| Dean Hill (Independent) | 0.4 | 8,717 | |
 | Kris Todd (Independent) | 0.2 | 5,084 | |
| John Carico (Independent) | 0.2 | 3,398 | ||
| Breton Phillips (Independent) | 0.1 | 2,226 | ||
 | Kevin Lee McCants (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,927 | |
| Total votes: 2,243,740 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Phil Bredesen defeated Gary Davis and John Wolfe in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 2, 2018.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Phil Bredesen | 91.5 | 349,718 |
| Gary Davis | 5.3 | 20,170 | |
| John Wolfe | 3.2 | 12,269 | ||
| Total votes: 382,157 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Billy Bailey (D)
Republican primary election
Marsha Blackburn defeated Aaron Pettigrew in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 2, 2018.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marsha Blackburn | 84.5 | 613,513 |
| Aaron Pettigrew | 15.5 | 112,705 | |
| Total votes: 726,218 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Larry Crim (R)
- Stephen Lee Fincher (R)
- Rolando Toyos (R)
- Edgar A. Lawson (R)
2016
Davis was a 2016 Democratic candidate for President of the United States.
2014
Davis ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. Senate, representing Tennessee. Gordon Ball defeated Davis in the Democratic primary.[3]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gordon Ball |
36.5% | 87,665 | ||
| Terry Adams | 35.6% | 85,528 | ||
| Gary Davis | 17.6% | 42,278 | ||
| Larry Crim | 10.3% | 24,778 | ||
| Total Votes | 240,249 | |||
| Source: Results via Associated Press |
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2012
Davis ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. Senate, representing Tennessee. He was defeated by Mark Clayton in the August 2, 2012, Democratic primary.[4]
Campaign themes
2020
Gary Davis did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Gary Davis participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on July 25, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Gary Davis' responses follow below.[5]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | To unite the people get the government to encourage people to be their very best to reexamine spending and redirect it to solve problems[6][7] | ” |
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | promoting people to be their very bestCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[7]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Gary Davis answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow and why?
| “ | God[7] | ” |
| “ | Earnest attempts at getting the government to work and be at its best[7] | ” |
| “ | I worked in aviation for many years this and talking to people with the focus of listing[7] | ” |
| “ | president being killed[7] | ” |
| “ | delivered newspapers had it for 2 years[7] | ” |
| “ | understanding people and their actions[7] | ” |
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "2016 Presidential Form 2 Filers," accessed November 8, 2015
- ↑ Associated Press, "A look at the candidates for Tennessee’s open US Senate seat," July 7, 2018
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedapts - ↑ Tennessee Secretary of State, "2012 Unofficial Filings," April 5, 2012
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Gary Davis' responses," July 25, 2018
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
