Matt Van Epps, a former state official who earned an endorsement from President Donald Trump last week, on Tuesday won the Republican nomination in the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, NBC News projects. Van Epps bested 10 other Republican candidates after a primary in which all of them campaigned on their support for the president. But Van Epps was the only one to get Trump’s backing, adding it to early endorsements from former Rep. Mark Green — the Republican who resigned from the 7th District earlier this year — as well as Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

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