Senator Bill Cassidy, one of the seven Republicans who voted to convict President Donald Trump after January 6, was effectively knocked out of contention Saturday night after getting crushed in Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary.
The biggest winner of the night was Julia Letlow, the Trump-endorsed congresswoman who stormed into first place and left Cassidy politically wounded in what many conservatives are already calling a massive rebuke of the anti-Trump wing of the GOP.
With most ballots counted, Letlow captured roughly 45 percent of the vote, while State Treasurer John Fleming secured second place with about 28 percent. Cassidy trailed behind at roughly 25 percent, failing to even qualify for the top spot and watching his re-election hopes collapse in real time.
Under Louisiana’s election system, the top two candidates advance to a runoff if nobody wins an outright majority. That means Letlow and Fleming will face off again on June 27, while Cassidy’s Senate career now appears to be over.
For many Republican voters, the result looked less like an ordinary primary and more like delayed political revenge.
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