Republican Senator Cassidy loses re-election to Trump retribution campaign
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- Add ARY News on Google AAResize Two-term Republican U.S.
- He is the first elected U.S. senator to lose re-nomination since 2012.
- Letlow, who won Trump’s Senate endorsement before she had even announced her candidacy, led Fleming 45.2% to 28.3% with 98% of votes counted, the Associated Press reported.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize Two-term Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy lost his bid for re-election in Louisiana’s primary on Saturday, as Trump-backed challenger Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming advanced to a June runoff to choose the party’s nominee after a closely fought three-way battle.
Cassidy, a physician who first earned the president’s ire by voting for his conviction in Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial in 2021, was projected to finish in third place in a political victory for Trump’s retribution campaign that recently unseated several Republican senators in Indiana who defied his push for state congressional re-districting.
He is the first elected U.S. senator to lose re-nomination since 2012.