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U.S. House · Updated Oct 9

Tennessee's 9th District

Brent Taylor win chance

98%

Typical margin: Taylor by 16

Republican

Justin J. Pearson 2%Brent Taylor 98%

Who's running

Justin J. PearsonDemocrat
Brent TaylorRepublican

The numbers behind it

Cook Political ReportAs of Sep 23, 2026Solid R
Money raisedFEC, through Jul 17, 2026Pearson $2.3MTaylor $1.5M
Campaign money

Justin J. Pearson

Raised $2.3M · $845K cash on hand · through Jul 17, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Brent Taylor

Raised $1.5M · $417K cash on hand · through Jul 17, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Our model counts the money gap as worth 0.2 points to Justin J. Pearson. Even a 10× gap is worth at most 1.5.

Other filers in this race raised $818K in total.

Candidates' own committees only, from fec.gov. Third-quarter reports are due Oct 15.

How the numbers moved
  1. Sep 23Cook Political Report: Solid RCook Political Report
  2. Jul 17Brent Taylor had raised $1.5MFEC filing
  3. Jul 17Justin J. Pearson had raised $2.3MFEC filing
How we got this number

We blend the polling average (when there is one) with the race's fundamentals: past results, incumbency, the national mood and the money. Then we play the election out 40,000 times, with polling misses that move every race together, and count how often each side wins.

90% of the model's 40,000 simulated elections land between R+28.0 and R+3.5.

No public polls yet, so this forecast rests on the fundamentals alone, with a wider range.

Our method ›