US Midterms 2026
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David Kustoff, a Republican attorney who has represented Tennessee's 8th congressional district since 2017 and was U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee from 2006 to 2008, faces Democrat Heidi Kuhn in 2026.
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David Kustoff was born in Memphis on October 8, 1966, and raised in the Memphis area.
He graduated from White Station High School in 1985 and from the University of Memphis in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in business administration, and he completed law school at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 1992.
In 1998 he opened a law firm with Jim Strickland, whom he had met at the University of Memphis. Kustoff is Jewish; he and his wife, Roberta, a lawyer at the Kustoff and Strickland Firm, have two children and live in Germantown.
David Kustoff became active in politics in the 1990s as chair of the Republican Party of Shelby County, and he served as George W. Bush's campaign chair in Tennessee during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.
In 2002 he sought the Republican nomination in Tennessee's 7th congressional district, finishing second with 20.24% of the vote behind state senator Marsha Blackburn.
President Bush nominated him in 2006 as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and during his tenure he prosecuted Operation Tennessee Waltz. He resigned shortly before the 2008 election and returned to private practice.
When Stephen Fincher announced in February 2016 that he would not run for reelection in the 8th district, Kustoff entered the race and won the Republican primary with a plurality of 27.45%, then defeated Democrat Rickey Hobson in the general election. In 2018 he won renomination over George Flinn with 56.00% of the vote. In the 119th Congress he serves on the Committee on Ways and Means and its subcommittees on health and tax.
Tennessee's 8th congressional district covers rural West Tennessee along with the eastern suburbs of Memphis, including Bartlett, Lakeland, Germantown and Collierville, and the cities of Jackson, Paris and Dyersburg.
David Kustoff, re-elected with 72.3% of the vote in 2024, was unopposed in the 2026 Republican primary, receiving 65,431 votes. His Democratic opponent is Heidi Kuhn, the Shelby County Criminal Court clerk, who won a four-candidate primary with 52.0% of the vote.
The general election takes place on November 3, 2026.
