In a Middle Tennessee special election yesterday, Republican Matt van Epps won a US House of Representatives seat defeating his Democrat challenger by about 9 percentage points.  Van Epps replaces Republican Congressman Mark Green who resigned from Congress. Republican President Donald Trump won the district in the presidential election by 22 percentage points.  
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