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Bill Hagerty is running as a Republican incumbent in Tennessee’s 2026 U.S. Senate race. The general election is scheduled for Nov. 3, 2026, and the contest includes 14 candidates identified as Democrats, Republicans, independents or UST.
Race overview
Tennessee’s U.S. Senate election is a contested general-election race. Hagerty is one of two Republican candidates in the field. Six candidates are identified as Democrats, five as independents and one as UST.
The candidate records do not list fundraising, spending or cash-on-hand totals for anyone in the race. They also do not list candidate biographies or documented policy positions. That means the records establish each candidate’s name and political affiliation, as well as Hagerty’s status as the incumbent, but do not offer a basis for comparing their issue positions or campaign finances.
Candidate field
Each of the 14 candidates has the same campaign-finance information on file: no totals for funds raised, funds spent or cash on hand. No candidate biography is on file.
- Civil Miller-watkins — Democrat. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Maria A Brewer — Democrat. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Diana Onyejiaka — Democrat. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Owen Nicholas Carlson — UST. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Gavin Solomon — Republican. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Tharon Chandler — Independent. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- David JR Sutman — Independent. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Bill Hagerty — Republican incumbent. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Catherine Barcel MS Barcy Whitson — Independent. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Robert Thomas Jones — Independent. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Yoshi D. Matthews — Independent. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Kevin Lee Mr. Mccants — Democrat. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Andrew Woodruff MR Mixon — Independent. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
- Marquita Bradshaw — Democrat. No biography is on file. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not on file.
Policy positions
No documented policy positions are on file for Hagerty or any of the other candidates. Their positions on federal spending, taxes, health care, immigration, foreign policy and other matters therefore cannot be stated from the official records associated with this race.
Party affiliation alone does not establish a candidate’s position on a specific proposal. Without a documented statement, platform or official action tied to a candidate, no stance can be assigned to that person.
Election date and next steps
The Tennessee general election is set for Nov. 3, 2026. Before voting, voters can watch for updates to the candidate field, campaign finance filings and official policy statements from every campaign.
Those updates would give voters more information for comparing the candidates on the same terms. Until then, the central documented facts about Hagerty are that he is a Republican, he is the incumbent, and he is running in a contested U.S. Senate election.
