A friend of mine in Louisiana tells me that Mary Landrieu has all but given up on the runoff and has set her sights on 2016, assuming that David Vitter will run for governor.
If that happens, who is the GOP nominee for Senate? I’m guessing Jindal will be mounting a presidential bid, so which GOP Congressman gets the honor of beating Mary two years from now?
Vitter IS running for governor next year. Repeat. IS running. The election is in the fall of 2015.
David Vitter to run for governor of Louisiana
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/01/david_vitter_to_run_for_govern.html
He will win.
He will then appoint his replacement to finish out his senate term that ends in 2016. The big question is who he will appoint. There is much speculation, but the insiders I talk to don’t know who he’s vetting.
Do not worry about Mary Landrieu. She will never run for office again, because she’s about to get the stuffing beat out of her.
Much like Kathleen “MeMaw” Blanco who was governor during Katrina, she’ll never be heard from again politically. The question is how much Mary’s butt-whipping will rub off on her brother Mitch who is Mayor of New Orleans.
Mitch is the last Democrat in Louisiana who has statewide name recognition and electability. For now, anyway.
Scalise, I believe, will ultimately succeed Vitter. But Vitter may not be elected governor, and he would then remain in the Senate or be a loser to the HRC ticket in 2016.