{"id":59286,"date":"2025-12-03T03:27:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59286\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:27:18","slug":"tennessee-seventh-congressional-district-special-election-results-2025-behn-vs-van-epps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59286\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Seventh Congressional District Special Election Results 2025: Behn vs. Van Epps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"body-paragraph eln-b76xit\">The last congressional special election of the year drew millions of dollars and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/20\/us\/politics\/tennessee-house-race-behn-van-epps-trump-harris.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Article&amp;state=default&amp;module=election-results&amp;context=election_recirc&amp;region=FreeformText\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outsized national attention<\/a>. Matt Van Epps, a veteran and Trump-endorsed Republican, was favored to win, but Democratic momentum across the country had officials in both parties wondering if State Representative Aftyn Behn, a Nashville progressive, would continue a streak of unexpectedly dominant performances for the party.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last congressional special election of the year drew millions of dollars and outsized national attention. Matt Van&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[416,859,9,11,10,287],"class_list":["post-59286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-elections","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}