At a get-out-the-vote rally in Nashville Monday morning for Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson dialed in President Donald Trump to say a few words. "The whole world is watching Tennessee right now, and they're watching the district," Trump said. This isn't the first time the president has gotten involved in the race for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District. Trump called in to another rally for Van Epps last month, in which he referred to Van Epps' Democratic opponent, Tennessee state Rep. Aftyn Behn, as the “AOC of Tennessee," invoking another young, female politician who ran an insurgent campaign from the left, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Asked if she considered the president's nickname for her an insult, Behn, 36, laughed. "You know,

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