Complex sentence: Blackburn's partisan ideology has not enough support bases in "establishment-oriented" East Tennessee where is the state's traditional Republican heartland, and in 2006 GOP primary Corker defeated her predecessor former congressman Ed Bryant by 14 percentage points.
Split into simpler sentences: Blackburn's partisan ideology has not enough support bases in "establishment-oriented" East Tennessee where is the state's traditional Republican heartland. In 2006 GOP primary, Corker defeated her predecessor former congressman Ed Bryant by 14 percentage points.