Democrats switch to campaign mode in new Congressional districts
Tennessee 5th District Congressional candidate Chaz Molder speaks during a press conference on Thursday, May 22, 2026. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Columbia, Tennessee Mayor Chaz Molder and 5th District Congressman Andy Ogles live in the same town of 50,000 south of Nashville in Maury County — but different Congressional districts since the recent shuffle of district lines by the Tennessee legislature.
“We can drive two streets over and be in the 5th Congressional District. The legislature knew exactly what they were doing when they tried to carve me out of the district,” Molder said on Beale Street Friday, May 22, as he relaunched his bid in the August Democratic primary to unseat Ogles, a Republican, come the November general elections.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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