Blackburn goes after dark-money group calling her ‘queen pharma mama’

By: Sam Stockard

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: July 28, 2026

Words: 583

Last Updated: 6 days, 3 hours ago

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Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn and her gubernatorial campaign are demanding a dark-money group pull a TV ad that calls her “queen pharma mama” and infers she took money to pass federal pharmaceutical law.

Attorneys for Blackburn notified officers with Alexandria, Virginia-based American Exceptionalism Institute that its ad targets a sitting U.S. senator with “knowingly false and defamatory accusations of bribery and corruption” and might be using artificial intelligence without giving required notice.

“The advertisement …

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