Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC
To election day71 days
Simulations200,000

Tennessee 6th District

Currently held by a Republican · open seat · district redrawn for 2026

Democrat
Mike Croley
3%
Republican
Johnny Garrett
97%
ForecastSafe R
Projected margin
R+24.1
80% range
R+39.2 to R+8.9
Partisan lean
R+25.0
Tipping-point chance
0.06%
Uncertainty multiplier
2.01×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
R+23.5
Blended
R+23.5
Similar-race shift
+1.3
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
R+25.0
Elasticity
1.04
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
−4.2
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+24.8

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