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Bob Russell from here on in will only make beautiful music on the campaign trail:

Defeated and lame duck Congressman David Davis not going to let a loss get in the way of his constituent service schedule before Phil Roe officially takes over his title. From a presser:

From the Associated Press:

Jim Holcomb, a former state senator and treasurer of the Tennessee Conservative PAC, tells The Associated Press he was angered when Ramsey spoke out against a potential challenge by Rep. David Davis of the GOP primary results in the 1st Congressional District.

State Senate candidate Mike Faulk gets a shout out from Phil Roe’s lapel in some of the press coverage resulting from the barnburner, near recounted race in the First Congressional District.

Angelia shines a bit of a different light on Democratic prospects in the First District Congressional race after the unlikely defeat of incumbent David Davis in the primary:

Former 1st District Congressional candidate Vance Cheek warns against closing the book on Rep. David Davis’s political career:

Given the total lack of support from the leadership of the Tennessee Republican Party, and the rather dubious legal claims of his challenge and the likewise weak "anecdotal" evidence of voting hijinks, 1st District Congressman David Davis has awoken to smell the coffee and has dropped his plan to challe

Rep. David Davis, still fighting his election defeat of a week ago, is looking for patterns in voter histories that won’t, in the best case scenario, prove much of anything:

There's been a lot of talk lately in the state blogosphere about so-called "crossover voting." Here's why: U.S. Rep. David Davis, of Tennessee's 1st Congressional District, narrowly lost last Thursday to former Johnson City mayor Phil Roe in the GOP primary; and Davis and his supporters are alleging that a number of Democrats engaged in a concerted effort to cause Roe to win.

This is rich. Congressman David Davis is getting ready to challenge his 486-vote loss to Johnson City Mayor Phil Roe in last week's Republican primary, saying crossover Democrats caused his defeat. Davis says: