‘Tennessee Three’ Lawmaker Announces Senate Bid Against Marsha Blackburn

Democratic state Rep. Gloria Johnson, a gun safety advocate who rose to prominence as one of the so-called “Tennessee Three,” has announced that she’s running for U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Marsha Blackburn.

The Tennessee state lawmaker launched her campaign on Tuesday near Knoxville’s Central High School, where she was a special education teacher and a survivor of a 2008 shooting that left one student dead. Johnson is expected to appear in Nashville and Memphis later in the day.