Letlow Wins!

Count on Julia Letlow to keep Louisianans poor, dumb and willing to die for nothing. This idiot won the run off. She will be the continuation of the status quo within the Republican establishment.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was eliminated early in the Louisiana Republican primary. It lead to a run off against his primary opponents, Louisiana state treasurer John Fleming (a former U.S. House member) and Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA).

The run off election was held on Saturday and the Associated Press called it for Letlow.

Letlow is a former university instructor and widow of idiot Luke Letlow, the U.S. House member elect who died of the coronavirus days before swearing.

Letlow was endorsed by President Donald J. Trump. She easily trounced Fleming.

With her as the nominee, I have the senate race as Solid Republican. She will be the second woman to serve as a senator from the state of Louisiana if she does win. The last woman was Mary Landrieu, a moderate Democrat who served three terms before being ousted by Cassidy.

Cassidy lost favor with Trump when he joined Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) in convicting him in his second impeachment trial. Mitt Romney, Pat Toomey, Richard Burr and Ben Sasse have since left the Senate. They all joined the current members in 2021 to convict Trump for Jan. 6.

The president backed Letlow in an effort to oust Cassidy, who voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges in 2021.

Letlow, a former college administrator and ardent Trump supporter, has been in the House since 2021. Her husband, Luke Letlow, died from COVID-19 complications after being elected to Congress in 2020, and she won a special election to fill the seat.

Letlow would become Louisiana’s first female Republican senator if elected in the fall in the heavily Republican state. She has promised to work in lockstep with Trump to advance his agenda.

Letlow’s victory caps Trump’s primary efforts to unseat Republicans who have not been in lockstep with him. Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, Texas Sen. John Cornyn and five Indiana state senators all lost reelection bids last month to challengers he backed.

However Trump-backed candidates lost in two June GOP gubernatorial primaries: Rep. Randy Feenstra on June 2 in Iowa, to businessperson Zach Lahn; and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones of Georgia on June 16, to billionaire Rick Jackson. Both winners were outsiders competing with establishment favorites.

Letlow was elected to the House in 2021 after her husband, Luke Letlow, won the same seat but died before taking office. She received Trump’s backing before entering the primary race in January.

She finished first in the primary with nearly 45% of the vote, compared with about 28% for Fleming and nearly 25% for Cassidy.

“We have a chance to send a clear message that Louisiana stands with President Trump,” Letlow said Thursday in an online rally with the president. “He endorsed me because he knows I will stand with him.”

For some, Trump’s endorsement was all that mattered.

“Trump’s lady all the way,” said Barbara Dufrene, 67, of Marrero. She added that she knew little about Letlow but was counting on the president to lower her healthcare costs and increase her social safety net. “I always vote whatever Trump wants.”

Louisiana Republicans said they voted for Letlow because Trump endorsed her. It shows that Trump’s incompetence doesn't affect poor and dumb ass Louisiana Republicans.

Letlow Had Spending Advantages

Letlow’s success on May 16, campaign spending on her behalf and support from prominent Republicans had her well positioned in the runoff. She was also endorsed by Gov. Jeff Landry, who consulted with Trump last year about her running for Senate, and U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.

Last month Letlow won in parishes from the state’s rural north to the New Orleans area in the southeast. She carried six of the 13 parishes that Fleming formerly represented in the U.S. House, including Caddo Parish, which includes Shreveport.

Fleming, a founder of the conservative House Freedom Caucus while in Congress, later worked in Trump’s first administration. He reminded voters that he did not resign after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.

He directed his appeals to those who identify most closely with the president’s “Make America Great Again” movement, saying his voting record is more conservative than Letlow’s. His campaign ads describe him as MAGA “long before it was cool.”

Fleming told voters he was blocked from reaching Trump to seek his endorsement by White House allies of Landry. Fleming said he finally got on the phone with Trump and reminded the president who he was.

“I said nobody has been more loyal to you than me,” Fleming recounted during a June campaign stop. “He said, ‘You’re fantastic! Why didn’t you call?’”

Shane Jones, a 54-year-old military veteran, said he felt Fleming had clearer conservative principles than Letlow and could defend them when challenged.

“He came out with his policies, where Letlow didn’t,” Jones said. “If you can’t sit there and sit down and talk to me about hard-hitting questions that the public has, well, then you’re not even on my radar.”

The two campaigns spent comparably on advertising, roughly $1 million each, since the May 16 primary. But a super PAC that supports Letlow led all spending, accounting for $4.1 million in the past six weeks, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact.

Rep. Julia Letlow's (R-LA) idiot husband, Luke Letlow died days before he was to be sworn in as a House member. He died of the coronavirus.

Fleming Attacked Letlow On DEI, And She Criticized Him Over An AI Video

Fleming has ads highlighting Letlow’s previous public support for diversity, equity and inclusion policy, which Trump has tried to eliminate. Letlow, a former college administrator, said she supported DEI while interviewing for the position of president of the University of Louisiana-Monroe in 2020, but said this year she opposes it.

Fleming reposted an AI-generated video on the social platform X this month that purported to show Letlow saying she supported DEI because she “didn’t know any better.” The fake image of Letlow also referenced her husband, who died from complications of COVID-19.

Fleming said he did not create the video “but it’s getting passed around Louisiana for a reason.”

Letlow condemned the sharing of the video as “disgraceful and indefensible,” chiefly for its mention of her husband.

Letlow emphasized key priorities for social conservatives, notably her support for national legislation barring transgender women and girls from competing in school sports.

Fleming staked much of his campaign on opposition to carbon capture and sequestration, the process for injecting carbon dioxide waste underground to reduce industrial pollution. The technology’s build-out, included planned pipelines, has sparked backlash in rural Louisiana communities and divided the state GOP.

Fleming said such projects infringe on private property rights and federal government subsidies for the technology are wasteful.

Letlow engaged to a Baton Rouge attorney.

Democrats Pick Davis As Their Senate Nominee

In the Democratic primary, Jamie Davis, a northeast Louisiana crop farmer, defeated Gary Crockett, a Navy veteran and business executive. Both promoted addressing the cost of living and protecting social safety nets.

The state is heavily Republican. Trump carried Louisiana by 22 percentage points in 2024.

Only a miracle could a Democrat win in a state that went Republican since 2007.

Letlow is a reliable Trump vote. She will continue to put Louisiana taxpayer money into Israeli interests. She will sell out rural Louisiana parishes to AI data centers. 

She will speak Cajan French to relate to the southern parishes and their hardcore racial angst.

She will claim that New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe are crime ridden cities and her mission is to bring "law and order" if she was elected.

Did you know Louisiana puts $35 to $50 million in Israeli bonds?

Louisiana ranks 49 out of 50 in education. It is ranked the 1st state in economic poverty.

There are 40 bridges in the state that are extremely vulnerable to collapse. Interstate 10 over Lake Charles. Interstate 55 bridges through the marshes, Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain. Interstate 20 bridges in Shreveport are in extreme distress.