United States
Tennessee governor polls 2026
Governor election 3 Nov 2026, in 3 days.
Marsha Blackburn leads the polling average with 39.9%, 8.0 points ahead of Jerri Green.
Average
Updated 34 minutes ago
Marsha Blackburn
39.9
−5.2
Trend
Marsha BlackburnJerri GreenDavid Hatley
Stances
Marsha BlackburnJerri GreenDavid Hatley
Immigration
ExpandRestrictRemigration
Economy
Free marketState-directed
Christian identity3 unplaced
Abortion
Broad accessProtect unborn life
Marriage & family
Individual choiceTraditional
National culture1 unplaced
CosmopolitanPreserve heritage
Technology
Light-touchRein in Big Tech
Scores and reasons written by AI. Methodology
Why these scores
Immigration
- Marsha Blackburn: 7.5 of 10 Pledges Tennessee will help implement Trump's mass deportations and penalise officials defying immigration law
- Jerri Green: 1.5 of 10 Would end state cooperation with ICE, bar ICE from state buildings and fund deportation defence
- David Hatley: 5 of 10 Says a secure border matters; wants violent criminal illegal immigrants removed from communities
Economy
- Marsha Blackburn: 2 of 10 Tea Party fiscal conservative; voted against the 2023 debt-ceiling deal and the Affordable Care Act
- Jerri Green: 6.5 of 10 Pledges Medicaid expansion, a living wage, paid leave and closing corporate tax loopholes
- David Hatley: 3.5 of 10 Would scrap the grocery sales tax via spending cuts, pause the gas tax and expand property-tax relief
Abortion
- Marsha Blackburn: 7.5 of 10 Sought Roe's reversal; led a 22-week ban bill and the Planned Parenthood fetal-tissue panel
- Jerri Green: 1 of 10 Would repeal Tennessee's near-total abortion ban and protect IVF and contraception
- David Hatley: 6 of 10 Says he is pro-life, citing adoption; no pledge to change Tennessee's near-total ban
Marriage & family
- Marsha Blackburn: 7 of 10 Voted for federal amendments banning same-sex marriage; 2026 bill limiting DAR membership to biological women
- Jerri Green: 1.5 of 10 Would veto anti-LGBTQ+ bills and fund LGBTQ+-affirming counsellors in every high school
- David Hatley: 5.5 of 10 Wants biological sex to govern women's sports and locker rooms; employer childcare tax credits
National culture
- Marsha Blackburn: 6.5 of 10 Pledges to stop 'woke anti-American curriculum' and teach America as the greatest country in history
- Jerri Green: 2.5 of 10 Opposes curriculum 'censorship and political interference'; no heritage or language agenda
Subsidiarity
- Marsha Blackburn: 6 of 10 Sought to bar the FCC from overriding state laws; opposes net neutrality as federal overreach
- Jerri Green: 6 of 10 Would let local governments set their own fiscal policy and restore sales-tax sharing with cities
- David Hatley: 6 of 10 Wants Tennessee, not Washington, to set building codes; counties to decide on data centres
Technology
- Marsha Blackburn: 7.5 of 10 Co-wrote the Kids Online Safety Act; led the 2025 vote stripping the federal state-AI-law moratorium
- Jerri Green: 7.5 of 10 Pledges data-centre moratorium, AI bans in sentencing and rent-setting, AI watermarks, fines for AI layoffs
- David Hatley: 7 of 10 Pledges private-by-default teen accounts, blocks on adult strangers messaging minors, and a data-centre pause