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William Wicker
William Wicker (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Tennessee's 8th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the Democratic primary scheduled on August 6, 2026.[source]
Wicker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
William Wicker was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from Brighton High School. He earned an associate degree from Dyersburg State Community College in 2019 and a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona Global Campus in 2024. His career experience includes working as a laborer.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: Tennessee's 8th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The primary will occur on August 6, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Democratic primary
Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 8
William Wicker (D) is running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 8 on August 6, 2026.
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Republican primary
Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 8
Incumbent David Kustoff (R) is running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 8 on August 6, 2026.
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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William Wicker completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Wicker's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- The affordability crisis is affecting nearly every facet of life, from healthcare to housing to food and gas prices. Wages have not kept up with productivity or inflation in decades, with the last raise in minimum wage occurring when I was just 11 years old. So many Tennesseans are living check to check and cannot afford to save for anything, leading to them getting exploited by greedy companies that take advantage of their poverty. Congress must step in and raise the minimum wage to at least $18 an hour. As of writing the ACA subsidies are set to expire in just over a month, resulting in health insurance becoming unaffordable to many Americans, we must work to make healthcare cheaper or even provided by the government, just as in Canada.
- Wealth inequality is at an all time high, even higher than it was during the era of robber barons and the Gilded Age. Deregulation and many other factors led us into this kerfuffle, while Elon Musk and Donald Trump and their cronies are stuffing their pockets millions of Americans are going hungry and without adequate shelter, I see this nearly every day when I am going to work, with the indigent begging for relief on roadsides and at intersections in Jackson. We must tax the rich more and use that money to aid the common American, instead of letting it sit in a bank account and do nothing. Trickle-down economics has failed and we are living with the results of that failure, as austerity has become the rule, we must fix this failing.
- "Gerontocracy" means government by old people, which our country has effectively become, these officials will not live to see the results and failures of the systems they mess with and implement, my generation will have to live with the results for decades, just as we have to live with the results of doing minimal effort to stop climate change. I think that we need younger people involved in government, but this is stymied by structural issues with election law, such as the FEC liming candidate salary to an average of the last 5 years of their pay, for me that would simply not be enough to live on because I cannot afford health insurance without an employer subsidy. We must work to make the government more equitable.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on November 28, 2025
