Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty to Run for Senate in Tennessee, Gets Trump Endorsement

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on March 1, 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Bill Hagerty, the current U.S. Ambassador to Japan, will run for an open U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee, President Donald Trump said on July 12.

“Tennessee loving Bill Hagerty, who was my Tennessee Victory Chair and is now the very outstanding Ambassador to Japan, will be running for the U.S. Senate,” Trump said on Twitter.