Rep. Ron Gant

My fellow Tennesseans, family, supporters, volunteers, and wonderful people of the new 9th Congressional District (who I affectionately call the Tennessee Niners):   Tonight, Middle and West Tennesseans have spoken. We have secured the Republican nomination. Thank you. Thank you President Trump. This victory belongs to YOU who want to see America put first and Tennessee Taken to the Top.   We ran a campaign rooted in common sense: tackling crime and keeping it from spreading into our small towns, deporting every illegal alien and addressing mass migration, and unapologetically keeping China from accessing Tennessee farmland, mineral rights, or proprietary information. The voters chose a fighter who will never back down and who represents the values of this redrawn district—one that already showed its colors by supporting President Trump by a decisive margin.   This is not the end. This is the beginning. The fight against evil begins tonight.   The Tennessee Niners must take the fight directly to Radical Justin Pearson.   Pearson is the face of the extreme left in this race—the same activist who has repeatedly put chaos over order. Anyone who gets in the face of law enforcement and calls them an “m-f boy” deserves to have the fight taken to them. That kind of contempt for the men and women who keep our communities safe has no place in Congress. We will not look the other way. We will not soft-pedal it. We will hold him accountable for that record every single day between now and November. With your help, I will make sure the only time Justin Pearson enters the United States Capitol is through the visitors center.   We will defeat evil leftist race-based Marxism. Pearson and his allies traffic in division, in identity politics that pit Americans against each other by immutable characteristics, and in policies that weaken our institutions, defund accountability, and elevate confrontation over the rule of law. That agenda has already failed in Memphis, failed in Nashville, and failed this country. We will expose it, reject it, and defeat it.   This district deserves a representative who stands with the police, not against them; who prioritizes public safety over street theater; who believes in equal justice under the law, not race-obsessed grievance. We will carry that message into every corner of the 9th District. We will organize, we will door-knock, we will vote, and we will win.   Tennessee niners: stay energized. We offer strength, order, and results.   The nomination is ours. The general election is next. The fight for this district—and against the radical left—starts right now.   From Memphis to Mountain City and from Turtletown to Tiptonville, thank you, God bless you, and may God bless the great State of Tennessee.