‘I’m American above all else’: Democrat Blair Walsingham running for Congress in Northeast Tenn.
by: Josh Smith
Posted: Sep 22, 2020 / 04:39 PM EDT / Updated: Sep 22, 2020 / 05:17 PM EDT
Johnson City, Tenn (WJHL) – Blair Walsingham knows – running as a Democrat in a heavily Republican district presents a major challenge.
“I’m American above all else,” Walsingham told News Channel 11. “I have a few things that make me more of a Democrat. But I’m a very moderate Democrat, very pragmatic. Very well-rounded.”
Those are characteristics Walsingham said were forged in tough times.
She enlisted in the military at 17, the daughter of a military family. Walsingham said by the time she left the military, she was a single mother who’d suffered abuse and who’d learned through hard times how to stand on her own….
