Marquita Bradshaw

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Marquita Bradshaw

Democratic Party

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Last election

August 1, 2024

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Memphis, Tenn.

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Christian

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Marquita Bradshaw (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Tennessee. She lost in the Democratic primary on August 1, 2024.

Biography

Marquita Bradshaw was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended the University of Memphis for undergraduate study.

Elections

2024

See also: United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2024

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Tennessee

Incumbent Marsha Blackburn defeated Gloria Johnson, Tharon Chandler, Pamela Moses, and Hastina Robinson in the general election for U.S. Senate Tennessee on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Marsha Blackburn (R)	63.8	1,918,743
		Gloria Johnson (D)	34.2	1,027,461
		Tharon Chandler (Independent)	0.9	28,444
		Pamela Moses (Independent)	0.8	24,682
		Hastina Robinson (Independent)	0.3	8,278

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 3,007,608
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Wisdom Zerit Teklay (Wisdom People Party)
• Marshal Weaver (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee

Gloria Johnson defeated Marquita Bradshaw, Lola Denise Brown, and Civil Miller-Watkins in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 1, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Gloria Johnson	70.2	143,962
		Marquita Bradshaw	21.8	44,657
		Lola Denise Brown	4.9	10,027
		Civil Miller-Watkins	3.1	6,420

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 205,066
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Kevin Lee McCants (D)
• Dylan Fain (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee

Incumbent Marsha Blackburn defeated Tres Wittum in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 1, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Marsha Blackburn	89.5	367,799
		Tres Wittum	10.5	43,244

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 411,043
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2020

See also: United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020

United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020 (August 6 Democratic primary)

United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2020 (August 6 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. Senate Tennessee

The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Tennessee on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bill Hagerty (R)	62.2	1,840,926
		Marquita Bradshaw (D)	35.2	1,040,691
		Elizabeth McLeod (Independent)	0.6	16,652
		Yomi Faparusi (Independent)	0.4	10,727
	Submit photo	Steven Hooper (Independent)	0.3	9,609
		Kacey Morgan (Independent) (Unofficially withdrew)	0.3	9,598
		Ronnie Henley (Independent)	0.3	8,478
		Aaron James (Independent)	0.2	7,203
		Eric William Stansberry (Independent)	0.2	6,781
		Dean Hill (Independent)	0.2	4,872
		Jeffrey Grunau (Independent)	0.1	4,160
		John Gentry (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	64

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 2,959,761
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Tom Kovach (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee

Marquita Bradshaw defeated Robin Kimbrough Hayes, James Mackler, Gary Davis, and Mark Pickrell in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 6, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Marquita Bradshaw	35.5	117,962
		Robin Kimbrough Hayes	26.6	88,492
		James Mackler	23.8	78,966
		Gary Davis	9.3	30,758
		Mark Pickrell	4.8	16,045

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 332,223
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Diana Onyejiaka (D)
• Tharon Chandler (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Tennessee on August 6, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bill Hagerty	50.8	331,267
		Manny Sethi	39.4	257,223
		George Flinn Jr.	3.4	22,454
		Jon Henry	1.2	8,104
		Natisha Brooks	1.2	8,072
		Byron Bush	0.8	5,420
	Submit photo	Clifford Adkins	0.8	5,316
		Terry Dicus	0.3	2,279
		Tom Emerson Jr.	0.3	2,252
		David Schuster	0.3	2,045
	Submit photo	John Osborne	0.3	1,877
		Roy Cope	0.3	1,791
		Kent Morrell	0.3	1,769
		Aaron Pettigrew	0.2	1,622
	Submit photo	Glen Neal	0.2	1,233

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 652,724
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Geoffrey Stokes Nielson (R)
• Garrett Nichols (R)
• Johnny Presley (R)
• Larry Crim (R)
• Jim Elkins (R)
• Josh Gapp (R)
• Clyde Benson (R)

Campaign themes

2024

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Campaign website

Bradshaw’s campaign website stated the following:

“	MAKING TENNESSEE WORK FOR ALL TENNESSEANS I have engaged people around policy throughout my career. Many times, we were reacting and responding to federal policies around education, economy, environment, and health care. Now I want the opportunity to fight for hard-working Tennesseans to shape federal policy as your United States Senator. I BELIEVE IN HEALTHCARE FOR ALL As your Senator, I will fight to ensure Tennesseans going bankrupt from seeking needed Medical Care is a thing of the past. Having experienced that in my own life, I know what it's like to have to suffer through our current system. I SUPPORT THE GREEN NEW DEAL As a fighter for environmental justice my entire life, I am proud to stand as someone who sees the unending benefits of this deal, not only for our Planet’s health but for the future of our state’s economy. Tennessee has an opportunity to invest heavily in new jobs, infrastructure, and more with this deal and we need bold, unafraid leadership to take us to new heights. I BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY POLICING AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE Restorative justice is a theory of justice that focuses on repairing the harm caused by the crime. It is best accomplished through cooperative processes that allow stakeholders to meet. In Tennessee, we need a fundamental overhaul of our justice system to ensure that we all are being held to an equal interpretation of the law, not one rooted in racial and income bias. When we do this it will lead to a transformation of people, relationships, and communities. I BELIEVE IN HIGH QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION Our society demands that we teach our students lifelong learning and skills that will translate to a modern economy. I am a lifelong proponent of funding our education system the same as we do our military in order to promote generations of meaningful success regardless of background or location in Tennessee. I BELIEVE IN UNIVERSAL BACKGROUND CHECKS Every day, more than 300 Americans are shot or killed–whether from mass shootings that are occurring with alarming regularity to more frequent acts of domestic violence and suicide. I BELIEVE IN PROTECTING DEMOCRACY Some have argued the single most influential Supreme Court decision in our lifetimes has been the overturning of the Citizens United case. This ushered in an era of untold amounts of money being funneled into campaigns from billion-dollar corporations to buy elections. Protecting Democracy is a critical piece of my campaign. I BELIEVE IN A LIVING WAGE FOR ALL WORKERS Tennesseans are the hardest working people in this country & their labor deserves to be recognized. This means fully and aggressively fighting for the federal recognition & implementation of a living wage beginning at immediately increasing the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour. We should implement a Building an economy that helps all Tennesseeans means: I BELIEVE IN DACA We should always be the beacon for families looking for better opportunities to find refuge from oppression, tyranny, violence, and prosecution.	”
—Marquita Bradshaw’s campaign website (2024)

2020

Marquita Bradshaw completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bradshaw's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Marquita is native to Tennessee. She is a Memphian who has extensive experience in the environmental justice movement. Marquita advocates for human rights. Marquita grew up in South Memphis and is an alumna of university of Memphis. As a single working-class mother, she raised her son in Tennessee. Bradshaw is a volunteer project director for Defense Depot Memphis, Tennessee - Concerned Citizens Committee (DDMT-CCC). She is one of the eleven founders of Youth Terminating Pollution. As a project director she fights for her childhood community. Bradshaw raises awareness and fights or justice for contamination from the Memphis Defense Depot Superfund site. The Superfund site is a chemical and biological warfare landfill. Marquita has championed many communities causes. Bradshaw has worked as an organizer at local, state, and national levels, including work with the Mid-South Peace & Justice Center, Sierra Club, Stand for Children, Tennesseans for Fair Taxation, AFGE, and the AFL-CIO

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• We can plan for the environment to have transition away from pollution.
• High quality public education pre-k-12 that prepare students for success in higher education and workforce
• The Economy must work for working families

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I believe that policies should ensure that people have healthy and safe places to live, learn, work, worship, and recreate, I am passionate about environmental policies and how the physical environment and human health are related.

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Marquita Bradshaw campaign contribution history

Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. Senate Tennessee	Lost primary	$39,728	$39,649
2020	U.S. Senate Tennessee	Lost general	$1,628,980	$1,612,771
Grand total			$1,668,708	$1,652,420
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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Tennessee's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Marsha Blackburn (R)

Bill Hagerty (R)

Representatives

District 1

Diana Harshbarger (R)

District 2

Tim Burchett (R)

District 3

Charles Fleischmann (R)

District 4

Scott DesJarlais (R)

District 5

Andy Ogles (R)

District 6

John Rose (R)

District 7

Mark Green (R)

District 8

David Kustoff (R)

District 9

Steve Cohen (D)

Republican Party (10)

Democratic Party (1)