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While some Democrats described Aftyn Behn’s single-digit loss in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, a district that President Donald Trump won by 22 points last year, as an “overperformance,” a team of Democratic researchers and analysts called the special election a “missed opportunity” for the party.

Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Behn by about 9 percentage points on Tuesday, closing out a high-profile special election to replace former Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn. Despite losing, Democrats said Behn’s inroads in the ruby-red district — along with November’s gubernatorial wins in New Jersey and Virginia — proves their party is “on the offense.”

This is where Welcome, a pro-Democratic Party organization, disagrees. In an October report en

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