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Overview
Current roleUndercover detective (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
GenderMale
LocationTennessee
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BackgroundUndercover detective (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department)
EducationLipscomb University — Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS), Organizational Leadership
Notable personal detailsJoseph H. Leurs is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House who ran in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District special election cycle. He is a retired undercover detective with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and a U.S. military veteran, serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and later the Army Reserve. He earned a Bachelor of Professional Studies in Organizational Leadership and an MBA from Lipscomb University and has also worked as an inventor and entrepreneur.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
Supports lower taxes, reduced regulation, pro-business policies, and shrinking federal spending while promoting fiscal responsibility and free-market principles.
Healthcare
The candidate’s campaign platform highlights expanding mental health care and fully executing the PACT Act for veterans, reducing veterans’ claims backlogs, and improving access to community care. The campaign emphasizes limited federal government and free-market/federal spending reduction priorities but does not present a clear, comprehensive position on broader healthcare reform such as the ACA, Medicare-for-All, a public option, or Medicaid expansion.
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Immigration & Border
The candidate calls for completing physical border barriers, enforcing immigration laws, ending illegal immigration, and supports deportations of illegal aliens while stating support for lawful immigration. The campaign platform emphasizes border security, stopping human and drug trafficking, and holding the federal government accountable on immigration enforcement.
Public Safety & Guns
The candidate emphasizes strong support for law enforcement and a firm commitment to protecting Second Amendment rights, opposing gun control legislation and government overreach while backing pro-gun policies. Policy language stresses support for law-abiding citizens and working with pro-gun groups.
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 20262026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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