Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said Tuesday that Tennessee voters must “wake up” and turn out for GOP nominee Matt Van Epps in the state’s special election, warning that Democrat Aftyn Behn — whom he called a “homegrown Marxist” — threatens to flip a deep-red district that President Donald Trump carried by more than 20 points.

Speaking on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom as polls opened across Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, Burchett said Republicans cannot afford to be complacent in a race that should be a GOP lock.

“Look, this lady was educated in Knoxville, Tennessee, my hometown,” Burchett said. “We need to wake up to what’s going on. It’s not these people moving in from California, or New York, or Chicago, even. It is our own homegrown Marxists that we’re bringing up. We have t

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