| Economy & jobs | Keep taxes, prices, spending, and regulation low to attract companies; simplify licensing; support small businesses; and work with employers to fill workforce gaps.[1] [2] | Raise the state minimum wage to at least $20 an hour, expand paid family and medical leave, support collective bargaining, and invest in small businesses and vocational training.[3] [4] | Phase in a $15 minimum wage with temporary help for small businesses; tie business incentives to measurable results and recover them when commitments are broken.[5] | No stated position | Create jobs, improve employment services, support local businesses, and foster responsible economic growth.[6] | No stated position | No stated position | Raise the minimum wage to $21 an hour over four years, let cities set higher wage floors, and provide 12 weeks of family leave.[7] [8] | No stated position |
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| Taxes & spending | Continue low-tax policies, oppose a state income tax, and review state government for waste, fraud, and savings.[9] [10] | End the state sales tax on groceries and on diapers and menstrual products, end the state's annual tax rebate program for corporations, and create a minimum tax so corporations cannot pay little or nothing.[3] [4] | Eliminate the state sales tax on basic groceries, covering the cost through spending discipline, efficiency, and a proposed Tennessee Sovereign Wealth Fund.[5] | No stated position | No stated position | Eliminate the 4% grocery tax, offset by closing corporate affiliate loopholes; opposes a state income tax.[5] [11] [12] | Reform property taxes.[13] | Phase the 4% state grocery tax to zero over three years, paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.[7] | No stated position |
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| Cost of living & housing | No stated position | Use unspent federal TANF funds to waive housing security deposits, clear child care waitlists, and erase medical debt; increase funding for affordable housing.[3] [14] | Train more construction tradespeople, speed up permitting, encourage starter and modular homes, and create a "Tennessee First Home Account" with state matching for families saving toward a home.[5] | Offer state infrastructure grants to cities that set aside 5–10% of new developments for homes priced at $250,000 or less and speed up approvals; roll back building code provisions that add cost.[15] | Housing stability for all Tennesseans.[6] | Cap how much local governments can raise property tax revenue each year, fully fund the senior property tax freeze, and redirect state housing loans to first-time buyers.[5] [12] | No stated position | Cover child care costs for working families earning up to $99,000, with parents choosing the provider.[7] | No stated position |
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| Education | Supports school choice and expanding the Education Freedom Scholarship program; wants parents to have the main say in their children's education; would strengthen the state 529 college savings program.[4] [16] [17] | Fully fund K-12 public schools instead of private school vouchers, raise teacher pay, expand universal pre-K, and create a special education equity fund.[3] | Protect current voucher recipients but tie future expansion to real access and accountability; give local districts more flexibility while requiring results.[5] | Focus on literacy, expand career and technical education to cut technical college waitlists, and create a parents' bill of rights with a state office to resolve disputes.[15] | No stated position | End the 2025 voucher expansion, reduce testing, limit screens, and add 50,000 child care and preschool slots by 2030.[5] [12] | Require state-funded schools and colleges to employ equal numbers of educators from each side of the political spectrum.[13] | Repeal the Education Freedom Scholarship program and redirect its funding to putting qualified teachers in classrooms.[7] | Opposes the universal voucher program as enacted; fund public classrooms, pay teachers competitively, and move away from high-stakes testing.[5] [18] |
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| Health care | No stated position | Expand Medicaid, protect TennCare and rural hospitals, curb prescription drug middleman markups, and legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use.[3] [4] | Support rural hospitals and telehealth, build local health care workforce pipelines, and replace the cannabis ban with regulation and taxation.[5] | Expand prevention, improve rural access to care, and invest in mental health and addiction recovery.[15] | Health care for all Tennesseans.[6] | Close health care deserts, take on pharmacy benefit managers, extend postpartum Medicaid coverage, and legalize medical cannabis.[5] [12] | Keep lobbyists out of health care decisions; address homelessness and mental illness.[13] | Cover every adult below the poverty line through a Medicaid waiver and expand community health centers to every county.[7] | Create long-term funding for rural emergency rooms and maternity wards, integrate behavioral health into rural primary care, and offer incentives for clinicians in underserved counties.[18] |
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| Public safety & justice | Pledges to seek the removal of district attorneys she says are failing to prosecute crime, oppose cuts to police funding, and work with Shelby County officials on crime in Memphis.[19] | No stated position | Pause executions while the state reviews the death penalty; require accountability standards for private prison contracts; set statewide limits on license plate readers.[5] | Clear the crime-lab backlog, hire detectives, expand TBI's violent crime team, require life without parole for repeat child sex offenders, and create job pathways to reduce reoffending.[15] | No stated position | Pause executions pending a full review, move away from private prisons, and limit how long license plate reader data can be kept.[5] | Fund law enforcement and reform the justice system, listing an end to bail and plea deals among his goals.[13] | No stated position | Give law enforcement training and resources, prosecute violent crime, and address root causes such as mental health while upholding due process.[18] |
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| Immigration | Enforce immigration law, keep sanctuary cities out of Tennessee, penalize officials who do not follow federal law, and have the state help carry out mass deportations.[20] | End state and local law enforcement cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, including ending 287(g) agreements on her first day.[3] [4] | Cooperate with lawful federal enforcement focused on serious threats; allow Highway Patrol 287(g) participation only with strict limits; keep public schools open to all children.[5] | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | Address illegal immigration and make English the only official language.[13] | No stated position | Supports legal immigration and punishing immigrants in the country illegally who commit crimes, with due process for everyone.[5] [18] |
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| Infrastructure & energy | Invest in infrastructure that keeps up with growth — roads, rails, rivers, runways, water systems — and close the rural broadband gap.[4] [21] | No stated position | No stated position | Pause new data center approvals until the state writes rules, end tax breaks for them, and use half of their new tax revenue to cut local homeowners' property taxes.[15] | No stated position | Pause new data centers until the state sets siting rules, have new growth pay for its infrastructure through impact fees, and keep TVA public.[5] [12] | No stated position | Place a 24-month moratorium on new data centers while the state sets regulatory standards.[7] [8] | Seek a role for the governor in TVA planning, weatherize homes in high-cost areas, and offer a tax break on energy-efficient home repairs.[18] |
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| Environment & land | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | Oppose the proposed Duck River dam in Columbia and require biodegradable consumer products instead of styrofoam.[13] | Create a Tennessee Green Bank and a Tennessee Renewable Power Authority.[22] | No stated position |
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| Firearms | Protect the right to bear arms while working on mental health system reforms aimed at preventing gun violence.[23] | Require universal background checks, adopt red flag laws, close domestic violence loopholes, provide free gun locks, and restore permit training.[3] | No stated position | Supports the right to bear arms.[15] [24] | No stated position | No stated position | Restore gun rights and voting rights to people with nonviolent felony convictions; add firearm lockers at courthouses.[13] | No stated position | Supports gun rights and background checks before purchases.[5] |
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| Abortion | Opposes abortion and says she will continue to advocate for protecting unborn life.[25] | Repeal the state's near-total abortion ban and issue an executive order so doctors can provide women's health care without fear of prosecution.[3] | Ensure doctors can provide medically necessary care, with clear protections for serious threats to a mother's health and discussion of other exceptions.[5] | Describes himself as pro-life.[24] | No stated position | Replace the current ban with a law that includes exceptions for lethal fetal anomalies, rape, incest, and trafficking, alongside access to contraception.[5] | No stated position | No stated position | Believes life begins at conception but considers current law too restrictive.[5] |
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| Government & elections | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | Create an elected, independent state auditor; post every state contract within 30 days; ban campaign contributions from major state contractors; end no-bid contracts outside emergencies.[15] | Open the workings of the governor's office to the public and let residents raise unaddressed issues at the Capitol.[6] | Open primaries, end gerrymandering, and lift the state ban on local ranked-choice voting.[5] [12] | Drug testing for government employees, no government unions, and mail-in ballots only for overseas military voters.[13] | Repeal the ban on ranked-choice voting, open primary elections, and draw fair districts.[7] [8] | No stated position |
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| Agriculture & rural | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | No stated position | Expand the Farmland Preservation Fund, seek tax relief on essential farm inputs, and expand mental health resources for farmers.[18] |
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