Claim: American businessman and Republican Bob Corker managed to win the 2012 United States Senate election in Tennessee followed by Democrat Mark Clayton with 800,561 votes away from Corker.
Evidence: Robert Phillips Corker Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 2007 to 2019. Republican Bob Corker (incumbent) 1,506,443 Democratic Mark Clayton 705,882