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2026 candidates we're tracking in TN-7
Matt Van Epps
Top priorities
- Prioritizing border security and reducing crime tied to illegal immigration
- Cutting taxes and regulations to grow the economy and expand domestic energy production
- Supporting school choice initiatives
Per the campaign site.
About Matt Van Epps
Van Epps is a West Point graduate and Army combat veteran who served ten years of active duty, including deployments as a helicopter pilot and air mission commander, per the campaign site. Van Epps is running as the Republican candidate for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, per the campaign site.
Darden Copeland
Top priorities
- Affordability: price gouging, housing, drug prices, and child care
- Ending corruption: a congressional stock-trading ban, no corporate PAC money, and term limits
- Protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and keeping rural hospitals open
Per the campaign site.
About Darden Copeland
Darden Copeland, of Nashville, is a businessman who founded and leads the public affairs firm Calvert Street Group after an earlier career as a campaign strategist, per his campaign site and the Tennessee Lookout.
Andrew J. Koontz
Andrew J. Koontz is an independent candidate from Portland, Tennessee for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, per the certified Tennessee candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026; the certified list is the only verifiable source for Koontz. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026; the Tennessee Secretary of State's certified candidate list is the only verifiable source for Andrew J. Koontz.
Lowell Reynolds
Top priorities
- Restore constitutional checks and balances on executive power
- Protect individual liberty
- Government accountability over party politics
Per the campaign site.
About Lowell Reynolds
Lowell Reynolds, a Grammy-winning music engineer now studying law, is running as an independent for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, per his campaign site. He holds a business degree and is a third-year law student at Syracuse University, and says he wants to restore constitutional accountability in Washington.
About this race
Tennessee's 7th Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Tennessee primary is Thursday, August 6, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.