Trump besegrar ännu en fiende – Cassidy utslagen
Bill Cassidy, republikansk senator för Louisiana, har under senare år varit en av Donald Trumps hårdaste interna kritiker. Nu är han utslagen i primärvalet inför höstens mellanårsval, rapporterar flera medier.
Bill Cassidy röstade för att fälla Trump i den riksrätt som hölls efter stormningen av Kapitolium 2021. I samband med dödsskjutningarna i Minnesota i vintras riktade han också kritik mot presidenten.
Två andra republikaner går till en avgörande omgång i juni: John Fleming, delstatens ekonomiansvarige, och Julia Letlow, den kandidat Trump själv har lyft fram.
– Jag vill tacka en särskild man som ni alla känner, den bästa president landet haft, säger Letlow.
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Bill Cassidy
Wikipedia (en)
William Morgan Cassidy (born September 28, 1957) is an American politician and physician who is the senior United States senator from Louisiana, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the Louisiana State Senate from 2006 to 2009 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015. Cassidy has chaired the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee since 2025.
Born in Highland Park, Illinois, Cassidy is a graduate of Louisiana State University (LSU) and LSU School of Medicine. A gastroenterologist, he was elected to the Louisiana State Senate from the 16th district which included parts of Baton Rouge, in 2006. In 2008, he was elected as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 6th congressional district, defeating Democratic incumbent Don Cazayoux. Cassidy was elected to the Senate in 2014, defeating Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu. He was reelected in 2020. He ran for re-election again in 2026 but lost the Republican primary to Julia Letlow and John Fleming, becoming the first elected Senator to lose renomination since 2012.
A moderate Republican, Cassidy was a critic of President Donald Trump. In 2021, he was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict Trump of incitement of insurrection in his second impeachment trial. As a result, the Republican Party of Louisiana censured him. In 2023, after Trump was indicted for mishandling classified documents, Cassidy called for Trump to drop out of the 2024 presidential election. After Trump secured the Republican nomination, Cassidy declined to endorse him in the general election.
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Julia Letlow
Wikipedia (en)
Julia Janelle Letlow ( LET-loh; née Barnhill; born March 16, 1981) is an American politician and academic administrator serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district since 2021. Letlow is the first Republican woman to represent Louisiana in the House.
After receiving an early endorsement from Donald Trump, Letlow announced her candidacy in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Louisiana, challenging Republican incumbent Bill Cassidy in the primary.
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