Congressional candidates in Northeast Tennessee working to sway last-minute votes
by: Anslee Daniel
Posted: Oct 22, 2020 / 12:04 AM EDT / Updated: Oct 22, 2020 / 12:01 PM EDT
TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL)- Election day is now less than two weeks away and both women running to replace retiring Congressman Phil Roe’s seat for the first district have been campaigning in Northeast Tennessee in hopes of heading to D.C. after November 3rd.
“I’m going to push the trade schools, working with these workforce development programs to get people good paying jobs and we want to attract those people to this area like we never done that before,” said Republican nominee Diana Harshbarger at Wednesday’s “Road to Victory” bus tour in Sullivan county.
As the countdown is on for election day, both Harshbarger and her Democratic opponent Blair Walsingham are making their pitch to voters in the district that spans across 12 counties.
“There is one main thing that we really have to do and that’s investing in infrastructure and this includes making sure that we get that internet expansion,” Walsingham told News Channel 11’s Anslee Daniel. “Too many times companies have passed us up here in East Tennessee because we don’t have the right infrastructure.” …
