Posted on 05/16/2026 9:29:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bill Cassidy voted to convict Donald Trump in February 2021. Louisiana Republicans spent five years deciding what to do about it. On Saturday, they gave their answer.
Cassidy, who has represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate since 2015, did not finish in the top two of the Republican primary. He will not advance to the June 27 runoff. His Senate career is over.
The two candidates who did advance, Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow and State Treasurer John Fleming, now face each other in a runoff that will determine which of them represents the Louisiana Republican Party against the Democratic nominee in November. In Louisiana, that general election is a formality. The real race ends June 27.
Trump endorsed Letlow on January 18, 2026. She entered the race two days later. The message was unambiguous: Louisiana is one of the most Trump-aligned states in the country, and the president wanted Cassidy gone. According to reports, Cassidy was the only Republican senator Trump's team actively targeted for defeat in this cycle. Saturday's result suggests the effort worked.
Letlow represents Louisiana's 5th Congressional District in the northeastern part of the state. She entered the race with the full weight of the Trump-Landry coalition behind her, and she runs into the runoff carrying that endorsement. Fleming, Louisiana's current State Treasurer and a former congressman who represented the 4th District from 2009 to 2017, built his campaign from the ground up. He was in this race before Letlow was. He was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, served in Trump's first administration, and consolidated rural Louisiana without the president's formal backing.
The runoff is a live test of those two different varieties of Trump-aligned conservatism — the candidate the president chose, and the candidate who was already there.
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Adios, Mofo!
Good riddance!!!
Good riddance!!!
Cassidy was also THE ULTIMATE BIG TOOL of BIG PHARMA!
Great news.
Cornyn and Massie are next.
Beautiful
The seven scum-sucking quasi-R senators that voted to convict Citizen Trump:
Richard Burr (N.C.)..............GONE!
Bill Cassidy (La.)...............HAHAHAHA! GONE TONIGHT!
Susan Collins (Maine)............STILL A TRAITOR SENATE BITCH
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)..........ANOTHER STILL-A-TRAITOR BITCH
Mitt Romney (Utah)*...............GONE!
Ben Sasse (Neb.).................GONE! AND DAMN NEAR DEAD
Patrick Toomey (Pa.).............GONE!
So only the two female ratvermin are left of the seven low-discernment a-holes that voted to convict Trump. EVERYONE on this list showed themselves to be progressive symps at their core.
GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE REST!
*Romney voted against President Trump TWICE. Filthy SOB.
I don’t wish death on anyone except the likes of bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri. Sasse made a horrible political decision but his type of cancer, sadly, strikes too many relatively young people.
He REEKED OF BITTERNESS as he gave his “concession” speech. It was KARMA, Senator. You brought it on yourself.
he thought for sure Trump was finished politically after the 2020 election. Never did like him.
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