Overview
- Invest in Tomorrow Coalition announced an extra $700,000 in paid media for the final week, bringing its total outside spending against Ogles to roughly $2 million.
- A Tusk Strategies poll commissioned by the group showed Ogles at 37% and challenger Charlie Hatcher at 33% among 400 likely Republican primary voters, a margin within the poll's plus-or-minus 5 point error range.
- Hatcher enters the final stretch with a fundraising edge and endorsements from former Gov. Bill Haslam and ex‑Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, while Ogles keeps President Trump's endorsement and the advantages of incumbency.
- The super PAC is led by renewable-energy executives who say they are punishing lawmakers for opposing clean-energy tax credits, and the group has spent heavily in prior GOP primaries.
- The surge in late outside spending could tip a close primary in a newly redrawn Tennessee district, reshape who Republicans run in November, and make the seat a higher-priority target for Democrats.