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==== 2018 ==== {{see also|United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, 2018#District 2}} [[File:Rep. Tim Burchett official photo, 116th congress.jpg|thumb|upright|Burchett's official portrait, 2019]] When 30-year incumbent [[Jimmy Duncan (politician)|Jimmy Duncan]] announced his retirement in July 2017, Burchett entered a crowded seven-way Republican primary to succeed him. He defeated his nearest challenger, state representative [[Jimmy Matlock]], by just under 12 percentage points. He faced Democratic nominee Renee Hoyos in the November general election. The 2nd has long been a Republican stronghold. With a [[Cook Partisan Voting Index]] of R+20, it is one of the nation's most Republican districts, and tied for the third-most Republican district in Tennessee. It is one of the few ancestrally Republican districts in the South; the GOP and its predecessors have held it without interruption since 1859. For this reason, the Republican primary has long been reckoned as the real contest in this district. Democrats have not made a substantive bid for the seat since 1964, and have received as much as 40% of the vote only twice since then. As expected, Burchett won the general election in a rout, taking 65.9% of the vote to Hoyos's 33.1%.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/results/tennessee/house Tennessee House results] from CNN</ref> When he took office in January 2019, Burchett became only the seventh person (not counting caretakers) to represent the 2nd since 1909. This district gives its representatives very long tenures in Washington; all six of Burchett's predecessors held the seat for at least 10 years, with three of them serving at least 20 years. He also ended a 54-year hold on the district by the Duncan family. [[John Duncan Sr.]] won the seat in 1964, and was succeeded upon his death in 1988 by his son, Jimmy. In February 2018 the ''Knoxville News Sentinel'' reported that Burchett had failed to report a $10,000 payment from a solar electric company on his campaign finance forms and various financial disclosure forms. The story reported that two months earlier the [[FBI]] had questioned people about Burchett committing income tax evasion.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ebert|first=Joel|url=https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/08/ethics-complaint-tim-burchett-never-reported-10-000-payment-while-state-senate/319504002|title=Ethics complaint: Tim Burchett never reported $10,000 payment while in state Senate|date=February 8, 2018|work=Knoxville News Sentinel|access-date=August 5, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709091304/https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/08/ethics-complaint-tim-burchett-never-reported-10-000-payment-while-state-senate/319504002/|archive-date=July 9, 2019}}</ref> After the story broke, Burchett gave a statement to WBIR that he was correcting errors in his campaign financial disclosures and income tax forms, describing his failure to report all income as an "oversight".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/knox-co-mayor-calls-tax-mistake-an-oversight/51-516380224|title=Knox Co. Mayor calls tax mistake an 'oversight'|date=February 12, 2018|access-date=February 10, 2018|publisher=[[WBIR-TV]]}}</ref>
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