A Tennessee Lookout investigation adds up the money behind Marsha Blackburn's rise: more than $100 million over 20 years, from payday lenders, a private prison company, and billionaires now poised to cash in if she becomes governor.
Weeks after Marsha Blackburn praised data centers as 'good and important' for Tennessee, her campaign reported more than $100,000 from AI and data-center employees — including a top Oracle executive. Her opponents got none of it.
New campaign filings show 72% of Marsha Blackburn's donors live outside Tennessee, and out-of-state PACs are spending millions to make her governor. Her opponent's money is almost all in-state.
Running for governor, Marsha Blackburn skipped a public forum, won't say if she'll debate, and claimed she'd done 'lots of forums' — until WSMV checked with her opponents and found it wasn't true.
Marsha Blackburn's stunt ad crushing fortune cookies to 'stop communist China' was called racist and 'sickening' — while her own campaign takes $1 million from a top TikTok investor.