Racist Republican gets vote

An unabashed racist will represent the Republican party in the November election.

With 86% of the primary vote counted, write-in candidate Dennis Bertrand had just 1,554 votes compared to 7,671, or 83%, for James L Hart, a believer in the discredited, phony science of eugenics.

In November, the GOP candidate will oppose Republican John Tanner, a Democrat who has represented the northwest Tennessee district for 15 years.