Matt Van Epps

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Democrat Darden Copeland is running against incumbent Republican Matt Van Epps, who, since winning the special election last winter, has spent his first mini term more or less superglued to Donald Trump.

District Seven encompasses North Nash, Belle Meade, Forest Hills, Oak Hill, out to Dickson, and then up through Hendersonville and Gallatin to Clarksville.

Because if there's one thing I know, it's that the people of Belle Meade-

Locally, the Nashville moratorium being considered doesn't go far enough.

We need at least a year to study the effects and get policy, standards, and proper zoning in place."

Now, we'd love to tell you more about Republican Matt Van Epps, but he didn't fill out the Banner survey.

It is also worth noting that Copeland has filed an ethics complaint against Van Epps claiming that Van Epps is paying congressional office staff to run his campaign.

Thanks, Chris.

So, Matt Van Epps, you can go out and find more information at mattfortn.com, mattfortn.com. We're running again on security, opportunity, and prosperity.

Those are the key things that drive both our first campaign, this campaign, our time in office.

I have 100% voting record, 364 of 364, advanced our first counterterrorism bill just seven months in, in July that passed the House.

We got a lot to get to today.

Matt Van Epps is gonna be drop- dropping by the studio at about 11:00.

We're gonna have a good conversation with him.

I thought of an icebreaker.

You're not seeing, you know, them pouring money into Darden Copeland, who's running in Middle Tennessee.

You're not seeing them putting that into, uh, Matt Van Epps, although he's put about 2 million of his own money into the race.

So you look at what the national Democrats are doing, they don't see Tennessee in play, or they'd be putting their money here.

Yeah.

The same date and time that he opened fire.

Yeah, that, Matt Van Epps was on here, the congressman, talking about that on, uh, last Friday, where I think he...

Didn't he say he and his brother, uh, Matt Van Epps and his, I think his brother, he said.

Yep, they were both on base at Fort-

They were both on base at Fort Hood when that happened.

Over the weekend in Clarksville, it's like a who's who of Tennessee politics behind the president live on stage.

Matt Van Epps is behind him, uh, Charlie Hatcher, Johnny Garrett.

And, uh, the, the crazy thing is, uh, we- we'll ask Matt Van Epps about this tomorrow because Van Epps is like, seems like, I don't know, seems a little nervous, a little uncomfortable at times standing behind the president, particularly when Trump started going off about Ilhan Omar.

If you're watching on Super Talk TV, maybe, maybe I'm just getting a bad read on the situation.

I am gonna ask Van Epps about this tomorrow when he's in studio at 11:00.