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Republican
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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

LiberalConservative

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 2026
Total raisedCash on hand
$7.5K
$5.6K
$3.8K
$1.9K
$0

2026

Latest
Year
Total raised
Cash on hand
Total spent
Burn rate

Cycle 2026

$7.5K
$22.7K
$1.5K

Source: FEC

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