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Overview
Current roleUndercover detective (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, retired)
Political ideologyConservative Republican
GenderMale
LocationTennessee
BackgroundUndercover detective (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, retired)
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EducationLipscomb University — Bachelor of Professional Studies (Organizational Leadership)
Notable personal detailsJoseph Leurs is a Republican former congressional candidate in Tennessee’s 7th District. He is a retired undercover detective with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department who worked gang and narcotics investigations. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an infantry NCO, deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and is a Purple Heart recipient; he later served in the U.S. Army Reserve. He earned an MBA from Lipscomb University and has been a veteran-owned business entrepreneur and inventor with a U.S. patent for first-responder safety technology.
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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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