A Democratic campaign that looks nothing like the ‘resistance’ could be the Democrats’ key to flipping the Senate

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• Phil Bredesen, a popular former Nashville mayor and Tennessee governor, is running for US Senate as a centrist Democrat. 
• In one of the most competitive Senate races in the country, the Democrat has rejected his party’s national leadership and is banking on voters’ trust in his long record to carry him to victory. 
• As the “resistance” movement hopes for a blue wave next week, their savior may well be a 74-year-old white man who hates calling himself a Democrat. 

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Phil Bredesen speaks in the calming tone of a doctor explaining a complicated diagnosis to a patient. 

But in his case, the former businessman, mayor, and two-term Democratic governor now running for the US Senate is tasked with diagnosing the ills of a nation — and he’s proposing a particularly unpopular medicine.

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