Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ed Bryant told the Chattanooga Pachyderm Club on Monday that the GOP cannot take Democrat Harold Ford Jr. for granted.
"Republicans do not have an absolute lock on this Senate seat," he said.
The speaker said Rep. Ford "has a high profile. He will be well funded by the national liberal Democratic Party."
He said of Ford, "He is polished. He is very, very congenial. This guy's nice. You want to like him." But he said Rep. Ford "is out of touch" with the core beliefs of Tennesseans.
From: The Chattanoogan