Gov. Bill Lee endorses Matt Van Epps for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District

First on the fox: Less than a week until the initial elections, the governor of state Bill Lee, R-Tenn supported the Republican Matt Van Epses to replace former MP Mark Green in the US House of Representatives.

Green’s retirement led to special competitive elections with an amazing candidate field 19, including 11 Republicans competing for the party’s nomination. VAN EPPS won the support of Green before its last day, which represents the seventh Congress area in Tennessee in July.

“My friend, Matt, IPe has full and comprehensive support, and I look forward to contacting a member of Congress.” “I will deliver my vote for Matt, and encourage all the conservatives to join me in doing the same on October 7.”

He told Van Eps Fox News Digital that he was “deeply honored” of supporting me, pledging to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda at home and to be a “strong conservative voice”.

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“Van Epsa is the first conservative and American fighter that we need to represent Tennessee,” he told me in a statement. “As a graduate in West Point, he visited the special operations, the current national guards, and former member of the Council of Ministers, if he dies, he has the character and courage to go to Washington and fight for Tennessee.”

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VAN EPPS was appointed DGS in 2024 and worked in many Tennessee state agencies, including the veteran Ministry of Services and the Ministry of Transport.

The governor said: “During his time as a commissioner, he worked to reduce the red tape, increase accountability, and push government efficiency. He will fully stand with President Trump, and bring the same leadership that relies on the results to Congress to defend our conservative values, and respond to liberal policies that threaten our way of life in our lives.”

VAN EPPS graduated from West Point in 2005. He served nine combat rounds as Apache Par in the Fourth Combat Brigade and as a CHINOK district for the 160th Special Operations Regiment, known as night appendices.

In the Tin race, the head of the Internal Security Committee in the House of Representatives, Mark Green, arrived in the Tin race, to Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2024. Green resigned from Congress earlier this year. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Green announced his retirement from Congress last month, and informed the Speaker of parliament Mike JohnsonR-La. , It will resign as soon as the House of Representatives votes on the “beautiful Trump law of the Great Law”, which the Republicans were able to pass by the deadline that it imposed on July 4.

Green served The seventh Congress region in Tennessee Since 2019, it was his last day in Congress July 20. He held the position of Chairman of the Internal Security Committee in the House of Representatives.

Its early retirement from Congress has already narrowed in the House of Representatives to 219 Republicans and 212 Democrats in July.

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The seventh province of Tennessee voted in favor of Trump with more than 20 points last year.

The primary was appointed on October 7, before the special elections on December 2.