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Race overview
William Davis Wicker is running as a Democrat for the U.S. House in Tennessee’s 8th Congressional District. The contested general election is scheduled for Nov. 3, 2026.
Nine candidates are listed in the race. Five carry the Democratic designation, two are listed as independents, one carries the Republican designation and one is listed with the designation NNE. Republican David Kustoff is identified as the incumbent, meaning he currently holds the seat.
The candidate entries list no biography for Wicker or any of the other eight candidates. They also contain no documented policy positions for any candidate, so the party and candidate designations are the only listed information about their political alignment.
Candidates in the election
Each person below is listed as a candidate for the same U.S. House seat in the 2026 general election:
- Jordan Daniel Hinders — Democrat. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for Hinders.
- Leonard Perkins — Democrat. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for Perkins.
- Horace Taylor — Independent. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for Taylor.
- William Davis Wicker — Democrat. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for Wicker.
- Adam D Austill — NNE. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for Austill.
- Dewey Gordon Bryan — Democrat. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for Bryan.
- Antonio MR Futch — Independent. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for Futch.
- Heidi Kuhn — Democrat. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for Kuhn.
- David Kustoff — Republican. Kustoff is the incumbent. No biography, documented policy positions or campaign-finance totals are listed for him.
Positions and campaign money
No policy position is documented for Wicker, Hinders, Perkins, Taylor, Austill, Bryan, Futch, Kuhn or Kustoff. That means no stance on taxes, federal spending, health care, immigration, foreign policy or another issue can be attributed to any candidate from the official entries.
The same limitation applies to campaign money. Funds raised, funds spent and cash on hand are not listed for any of the nine candidates. Those three figures serve different purposes: money raised shows incoming campaign funds, money spent shows campaign expenditures, and cash on hand shows money remaining at the end of a reporting period. No dollar amounts are listed in any of those categories for this field.
What voters can track next
The central confirmed date is Nov. 3, 2026, when the Tennessee general election is scheduled to take place. Before voting, voters can watch for official candidate biographies, documented issue positions and campaign-finance totals for all nine candidates.
Those additions would provide more information about each person’s background, priorities and campaign activity. Until then, the entries establish the candidates’ names and designations, identify Kustoff as the incumbent and confirm that the 8th District race is contested.
