Episode

The Independent Plan to Flip Tennessee with Lauren Pinkston - Independent for Governor of Tennessee.

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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff

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Jun 17, 2026

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2439

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Summary

Tennessee looks like a red wall on the map. Look closer. Roughly 48% of eligible voters there are unaffiliated — the highest share in the country — and only a third of them bothered to show up last midterm. That's not apathy. That's the angry middle waiting for someone worth voting for. Lauren Pinkston, independent candidate for governor, joins Paul to make the case that 2026 is the year Tennessee breaks the one-party stranglehold, and she's got the math, the ground game, and the biography to back it up.