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Posted on 07/30/2025 1:01:42 PM PDT by RandFan
Bill Cassidy is playing a gambit.
The Republican doctor from Louisiana appears ready to fight for his Senate seat next year, a race complicated by his checkered history with President Donald Trump and a new primary system that could make reelection more difficult.
His main hurdle? Convincing his Louisiana base that he’s gotten behind Trump’s agenda, despite his vote to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial. His GOP challengers have already seized on that vote, pitching themselves as better Trump loyalists.
The gambit is that voters will be swayed by Cassidy’s late turn toward Trump, including support this year for the president’s controversial pick for Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Going against the grain of the party ramps up the political risk, noted Chris Cooper, a professor of political science at Western Carolina University.
“That’s always been true for senators or any politicians, but that’s particularly true in the age of Donald Trump,” he said in an interview. “Where, if you are Republican and you cross Trump, you’re running the risk of him putting you on full alert on Truth Social, and sending a message that will be received by Republican voters.”
Further complicating his fate is Louisiana’s new closed primary system, which applies to his seat and means that he will be competing in a smaller and more conservative pool of voters.
John Couvillon, a Louisiana pollster who founded JMC Analytics & Polling, said the state’s previous primary system — in which all candidates ran in the same race and the top two finishers advanced to the general election — forced Republican candidates to consider moderate voters in the primary. The new system means a distinct shift to the right.
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I live in SC and I was listening to a conservative talk show host here and he says he is NOT voting for Lindsey Graham. The problem is that Trump is going to back him even though Lindsey has stabbed him in the back multiple times.
I hope that a true conservative can oust Graham next year in the primary.
Having public differences with Trump on Ukraine or the budget is one thing - but this is beyond the pale.
To have given any kind of support, much less direct assent, to that dangerous, anti-Constitutional, fraud of impeachment is absolutely unforgivable.
Having public differences with Trump on Ukraine or the budget is one thing - but this is beyond the pale.
To have given any kind of support, much less direct assent, to that dangerous, anti-Constitutional, fraud of impeachment is absolutely unforgivable.
Agree but unless someone top tier runs - and that is not likely - Graham will be re-elected
His previous opponents have been state senators and such . No chance.
Is there nobody else ?
Cassidy should bow out. Every Republican who cast an impeachment vote to oust President Trump should be hiding under a rock, not running for office.
Always follow Ronald Reagan’s advice. Vote for the republican who is most likely defeat the democrat opponent. Otherwise you just helped democrat get elected who will fiercely oppose whatever your agenda is.
“… absolutely unforgivable.”
Ditto - I’d even hazard to question his judgement as a physician that could look at the set of symptoms of TDS among Trump’s detractors & not arrive at a better differential diagnosis that time has now proven correct. He needs to be returned to his highest & best medical use as a chancre mechanic at the maximum security prison in LA.
Pres Trump is a lame duck, and will be gone in 3.5 years (if not less, thanks to the psychotic Left). Adherence to his ideas and ideals are what is important - Less government, less spending, less power in DC, more focus on America first and Americans first. I could care les how they feel about the man himself.
“despite his vote to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial.”
Political death, especially now that we know more of the facts.
With that vote for impeachment he earned a Lifetime Disqualification.
Cassidy kept meeting with Biden and then lobbied Congress to give Biden victories.
Cassidy helped push thru Trillions in Woke spending that financed Dems for a decade.
He needs to be primaried and gotten rid of. He’s pure RINO scum.
I’m on the board of a chamber of commerce. His staff is calling around begging to be invited to events. He is a dead man walking. BUT.... never underestimate the ability of the voters to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I don’t think he’s gonna make it Jim.
Reagan lived in a different era. RINOs are enemy #1.
It is. I've noticed that doctors (and PhDs) are usually very smart and good at what they do but they are mostly one-trick ponies. As I've seen with others like him, Cassidy can't seem to see or decide for himself what he isn't told which explains his impeachment decision.
He might get it in his primary.
Well, Louisiana is so corrupt, he fits right in.
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