Far-right mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson went down in flames following a scandal-ridden campaign and widely reported links to white supremacists.
The real estate developer won just 3,322 votes, or 20.6 percent, to incumbent mayor Ken Moore's 12,822 votes, or 79.4 percent, and three MAGA candidates for alderman-at-large – Jeff Feldman, Patrick George and Gary Moore – also decisively lost their races, reported WTVF-TV.
"The challenges of this election have made our community stronger," Moore said at his victory party. "We all know we live in a great community. We must keep it great."
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Hanson refused to allow reporters into her election night event, which reportedly cost $500 a person, but her campaign drew national attention with a series of scandals and menacing confrontations that WTVF reported Phil Williams described as "the most bizarre race that this picturesque Middle Tennessee community has ever experienced."
The Franklin alderman ripped off social media images to suggest her campaign had diverse support, but the TV station later uncovered links between her election campaign and a harassment campaign by her white supremacist supporters, and worrying links emerged between Hanson and Christian nationalists.
Hanson also spread conspiracy theories questioning the Nashville's Covenant School shooting, and WTVF found that she had been arrested in the mid-1990s for promoting prostitution in Dallas and attended a 2008 Pride parade with her Speedo-wearing husband despite opposing similar events in the community she hoped to lead as mayor.
