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Incumbent
IncumbentSteve Cohen
DemocratIncumbent
IncumbentSteve Cohen
TN-09 Democratic nominee?
$24.4K
AUG 7, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleU.S. Representative
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
LocationTennessee
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Positions
LiberalConservative
Economy & Taxes
Supports taxing the ultra-wealthy and closing billionaire tax loopholes, opposes cuts to IRS enforcement, and voted against the 2017 GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Advocates raising revenue from high-income taxpayers and corporations to fund social programs and ensure tax fairness.
Healthcare
Supports a single-payer approach to health care and has cosponsored legislation expanding Medicare into a universal, single-payer system. Also supports strengthening Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and expanded access to care.
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Immigration & Border
Supports creating earned pathways to citizenship (including cosponsoring the American Dream and Promise Act), defends asylum and refugee protections, opposes restrictions like ending birthright citizenship, and has called for abolition of ICE and voted against funding for ICE.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Supports legal access to abortion and federal protections for abortion and other reproductive-health decisions; backs legislation to codify and expand reproductive rights, protect travel and providers, and oppose state-level restrictions. Describes support for measures to enshrine contraceptive access and broader reproductive freedom.
Climate & Energy
Supports major federal clean-energy investments and emissions reductions, including votes for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act; cosponsored the Green New Deal resolution and has urged the Tennessee Valley Authority to phase out fossil fuels and transition to a 100% clean energy grid by 2035.
Public Safety & Guns
Supports an assault weapons ban and expanded/background-check measures to reduce gun violence, cosponsoring federal legislation to ban certain semi-automatic firearms and to close background-check loopholes. Supports increased research into gun violence prevention and other federal measures to restrict access to firearms for dangerous individuals.
Polls
TN-09 Democratic nominee?
Aggregation source: FiftyPlusOne
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 2026Total raisedCash on hand
$2.0M
$1.5M
$991.3K
$495.7K
$0
2022
2024
2026
LatestYear
Total raised
Cash on hand
Total spent
Burn rate
Cycle 2022
$546.3K
$1.4M
$313.8K
$13.1K
Cycle 2024
$703.5K
$1.7M
$432.3K
$18.0K
Cycle 2026
$658.6K
$2.0M
$395.3K
$26.4K
Source: FEC
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