One Memphis media outlet has sparked speculation that former U.S. Sen. Bob Corker may run for governor of Tennessee.
This, the same month that Corker, a Republican, granted an interview to PBS and seemed to make patronizing remarks about former President Donald Trump’s supporters. Corker referred to those individuals as “the base.”
As The Tennessee Star has frequently reported, Corker has long criticized Trump and Republicans who support him.
Corker’s Facebook and Twitter pages provided no way to contact the former senator or his representatives.
A Memphis Flyer article last week profiled Corker speaking to reporters in Chattanooga, his hometown.
“Corker declared that the White House under Trump had become an ‘adult daycare,’ needful of help from more conscientious members of the administration to ‘separate our country from chaos,’” the paper reported.
“He questioned the president’s steadiness and scheduled a hearing to consider limiting the president’s power to use nuclear weapons.”
In another passage, the Memphis Flyer reported that Corker “has not excluded the possibility of another run for office.”
“There has been some speculation that he has been considering a future race for governor, an office he aspired to before his election to the Senate,” according to the paper.
The paper did not elaborate.
Corker told the following to Frontline PBS this week as it related to Trump:
“The president was obviously very aware of that attachment that people had to him, right. And how tight it was,” Corker said.
“He goes to these rallies; he can feel it. And so, here he perpetuates this total untruth about the election. And intelligent, hardworking Americans … follow him lock, stock and barrel.”
As reported in 2019, Corker reportedly said the Republican or Democratic parties have changed too much by his standards.
As The Star reported also reported that year, Corker, an avowed NeverTrumper, used his previous platform as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to criticize the former president. Corker compared the Republican president to a banana republic for removing former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance and other former officials’ clearances.”
The Star reported in 2018 that Corker longed for the way the Republican Party was before the Tea Party and before Trump. Corker had also likened Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter to tyrants, making reference to their opinions on the border wall situation.
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected].
If the Republicans nominate Corker to run I will vote Democrat. Won’t be any difference.
OH MY Tennessee cannot withstand a RINO like Corker. He was the worst Senator and I’ve been voting since 1968. Our current Governor is doing the best he can even with all the COVID issues. Nashville will always be democrat but the State must stay true conservative.
Nashville does not have to stay democrap. There is a tool called Redistricting. Take Jim Cooper and put him in Mark Green’s district. Dilute a state Senator or two. You will
See their iron clad grip dissolve for sure.
Beth Harwell allowed the current environment with gutless action 10
Years ago. Keep her and other Dim sympathizers away from these decisions. It’s a lot to ask fir I know-Sexton if very much one. It’s just the only way.
Let’s be clear: Corker dropped out of the senate because he had zero chance of being reelected. He is a swamp creature who is hoping the election changes that Biden is proposing will create the right environment for him to win. He has already demonstrated that he is willing to fall on his sword for the establishment and wants to be rewarded.
If he is serious, he should be honest and run as a Democrat
I almost had to check the calendar, to make sure that it wasn’t April 1st! Until it hit me, I bet Corker is serious. But not for the reason one might think.
In the not too distant future, Tennessee is going to be a “battle ground State”! The same tactics deployed by the Left and the Party of Slavery (POS) in Georgia will be deployed in Tennessee. And one of those strategies will be to hide some or all of their shenanigan’s within multiple candidates races.
And how better to steal an election than by employing a snake like Corker, who is already a compromised, Swamp-dwelling POS.
Interesting Corker wants anybody he talks with to be Vetted!! I guess he only wants to hear from people that thinks like he does! Trump is not a politician! Corker is definitely a politician!! Little Bob Please join the democratic party!!! You stated you vote the way you feel and not the way Tennesseans want you to vote! You are disgusting!!!
this would be the first candidate i refuse to vote for, for governor. no way in hades i will vote for bob.
Little Bob wants to save the country after supporting the Obama administration! Go back under your rock little Bob! Remember he wanted a job with Trump! I am glad he is out of office!!!
I miss Trump
Oh lord, another creature. Just retire. Get a real job.
Please, I appeal to former President Trump to come to Tennessee and call for the removal of the Tennessee GOP party establishment! They never call out bad GOP members like Corker, Haslam, Blackburn and Hagerty that run as a conservative but govern like a liberal democrat! The Tennessee GOP house members keep their promise and vote for election integrity, somehow Blackburn and Hagerty can’t keep their promises! Hagerty and Blackburn support RINO McConnell that makes unsupported allegations against Trump of inciting a riot! Where is the proof Mitch? Please president Trump come to Tennessee and help clean up this RINO establishment GOP mess! Or let’s start a local Patriot Party and defeat these weak RINOS!
Little Bob Corker umm! This is the guy that voted against Trump and made fun of Tennesseans that overwhelmingly supported Trump! This guy is a total joke and is a RINO swamp creature! He is part of the Tennessee establishment trying to reestablish control of politics in Tennessee! He and never Trumper Billy Haslam are total jokes and Governor Bill Lee will easily defeat little Bob! Bob goes to the senate and somehow his networth doubles while in the government? Not sure how you get doubly wealthy working for the government! Watch RINO Bill Hagerty he will soon unrobe and display his anti Trump agenda!!
Bill Lee is not worried!!
I will never vote for this man…..never! He is power hungry!
Good luck with that.
Silly Bobby Corker.
I swear by Almighty God, I will vote for anyone besides Corker!