Posted on 10/15/2023 2:47:09 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Republican Jeff Landry won a landslide election on Saturday to flip the Louisiana governor’s mansion red in one of three main gubernatorial elections this year, shocking political observers with a victory that saves him the trouble of having to face a Democrat in a November runoff.
Landry defeated Democrat Shawn Wilson and the rest of the field in Louisiana’s gubernatorial election, winning about 52 percent of the vote. In Louisiana, governor elections are first open to a full field of all candidates from either party in what is known as a jungle primary—and then the two top vote-getters generally advance to a runoff a month later. But if a candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, as Landry did here, they can win outright on jungle primary day.
Many were expecting Landry, the clear and convincing frontrunner who has been the Attorney General of Louisiana for many years after a stint in Congress, to easily advance to the runoff and face Wilson in November. But his overwhelmingly strong performance on Saturday put him above majority support as the Associated Press called the race with him easily north of the 50 percent mark, meaning Landry will be the next governor of Louisiana.
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Did you look at how many other candidates were running? The Alt Left ran like 10 other candidates to split the Conservative vote and still lost badly
“52 to 26 is a little beyond the margin of fraud.”
The fraudsters probably figured there was no point in game playing since this was a meaningless pre-runoff election.
Oops.
;-)
“Shocker”
Really? Gov. Elect Landry enjoyed being the front runner from the day he announced. All things considered it seems like the citizens of Louisiana have had all the bidenomic’s they care to have. Good job Louisiana!
The general public commonly refers to this electoral system as a jungle primary. The application of this term to describe any electoral system presents two problems. First, the term has negative connotations. In this context, the adjectival use of jungle suggests disorderliness and chaos. Its use infers a negative judgment against the electoral system. Second, the term lacks descriptive force. It does little to explain the substance or function of the system it is used to describe.
Louisiana's secretary of state describes the state's electoral system as a majority-vote primary paired with a plurality-vote general election:[1]
This term is an improvement over jungle primary because it contains no negative connotations and more closely describes the substance and function of the system. Still, it lacks precision. A primary election is typically understood as an election used either to narrow the field of candidates for a given office or to determine the nominees for political parties in advance of a general election. Given this definition, a candidate cannot win an election outright in a primary. Candidates can only win an office in a general election.
In light of the shortcomings of the aforementioned existing terms, Ballotpedia has chosen to refer to Louisiana's electoral system as the Louisiana majority-vote system.
This term hews closely to the language used by Louisiana's secretary of state while avoiding the misleading primary and general descriptors. Instead, it encompasses both phases of the process without obscuring the possibility of winning the election in the first phase.
If a need for further precision arises, we use the following language:
The following types of primary elections are distinct from and should not be confused with jungle primaries:[2]
I might actually start visiting NOLA again. Went there last year AFTER Mardi Gras and let me tell you it looked like the streets were filled with maximum security inmates running wild. It was horrendous! A marked difference between when we visited under Jindal where there was much more law and order.
Don’t let the door hit you Bel Edwards.
I should say this was in the French Quarter which is normally tame compared to the adjacent hoods. DH and I did NOT feel safe whatsoever.
“The abortion issue” is a canard by death merchants meant to scare us from our pro life principles.
It was much evident at our State Convention.
“We won, Roe v Wade is cancelled, let the states do as they wish.”
No. If the states wish to kill innocent children, I will not be passive in the matter. Nor if they wish to sexually mutilate them. I am not “done.”
The 3rd & 4th place vote getters were also Rs.
“He is not a deity.”
Gosh, I did not know that! Thank you for enlightening me.
Do you have any other great unspoken truths you can lay on us?
That was directly narrowly to one who apparently needed it.
I’m glad you’ve been reminded of what you seem to suggest you already knew, but apparently had forgotten.
In Louisiana, statewide elections are not necessarily determined by who is R or D but rather who is C.
R=Republican
D=Democrat
C=Coon***
“I’m glad you’ve been reminded of what you seem to suggest you already knew, but apparently had forgotten.”
I am left wondering if you can’t understand sarcasm, or are just being a prick, again.
Beginning of the red wave… 3 years too late.
If Scott is on your side, he will never stop helping you.
Anyone heard about Arizona in 2022? Every single one of his endorsements lost. Every State is different. Republicans are going to take back Arizona you can take that to the bank. This isn’t an indictment on Trump, it’s just a response to a comment that he will not endorse unless he is confident they will win. Abe Hamedah should have won AG. He did win. Lawsuit still going. Just saw him on Friday night. He has some big plans going forward. He is a good man.
A solid Trump endorsement, Landry slaughtered Dems......and so will 2024 candidate Trump.
Trump’s Presidential Immunity Defense May Just Lead To An Election Indictment Dismissal
Trump is arguing that presidents, even after their term is over, are absolutely immune from criminal prosecutions arising out of their acts in office.
Thursday afternoon in a Washington, D.C., federal court, former President Donald Trump filed a motion to dismiss the case pending against him there for his alleged actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The motion cites presidential immunity as a ground to dismiss the case in its entirety.
The motion persuasively argues that the D.C. case should be dismissed, and if past practice is any guide all proceedings could and should be stayed while this issue is litigated fully, all the way up to the Supreme Court if necessary. Notably, this same reasoning should apply to the ongoing Georgia prosecution as well.
A number of legal commentators have anticipated this move and have stated from the outset that presidential immunity should be an absolute bar to the prosecution of Trump for his alleged acts in office that underlie the federal prosecution in D.C.
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Any denial of this motion to dismiss, or any similar motion in Georgia, is likely immediately appealable, as is the case in where congressional legislative immunity is implicated. This means, depending on how long it takes Judge Chutkan to rule, this issue could be before the D.C. Circuit and potentially the Supreme Court before long.
In the meantime, an immunity argument like this one compels a stay of all proceedings, as would be the case in almost any action where immunity forms a potential basis for the avoidance of trial.
Have you heard of Bobby Jindal? The Indian dude?
Democrats cheated in 2018, 2020, and 2022 here in Arizona. Hobbs was called the loser by the AP in election night in her sec/state campaign back in 2018. Then they found magic votes. Don’t blame Trump for that Ms. Rino.
Great! Now pass constitutional carry.
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