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The Tri-Star State: Takeaways From The First Debate Between Marsha Blackburn And Phil Bredesen

Congressman Marsha Blackburn and former Governor Phil Bredesen laid out their positions on responding to the opioid crisis at a forum Friday hosted by Healthy Tennessee.
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Congressman Marsha Blackburn and former Governor Phil Bredesen laid out their positions on responding to the opioid crisis at a forum Friday hosted by Healthy Tennessee.

The Tri-Star State — A Tennessee Politics Podcast — Week of Oct. 1, 2018

The polls show Tennessee's Senate race between Congressman Marsha Blackburn and former Gov. Phil Bredesen is neck and neck. That makes events like last week's debate at Cumberland University all the more crucial.

During the debate Bredesen and Blackburn highlighted some important differences as they tried to make their final cases to voters. WPLN's Chas Sisk and Sergio Martínez-Beltrán have been covering the race, and they sat down with Jason Moon Wilkins to talk about why this race is taking on national implications.

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Chas joined WPLN in 2015 after eight years with The Tennessean, including more than five years as the newspaper's statehouse reporter.Chas has also covered communities, politics and business in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics and journalism. Outside of work, he's a dedicated distance runner, having completed a dozen marathons
Jason Moon Wilkins
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán is Nashville Public Radio’s political reporter. Prior to moving to Nashville, Sergio covered education for the Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden, Utah. He is a Puerto Rico native and his work has also appeared on NPR station WKAR, San Antonio Express-News, Inter News Service, GFR Media and WMIZ 1270 AM.