Republican Donald Trump and Co. LOSE another one on the state level…
Democrats continue to crawl back from their loses with Trump’s victory in 2016…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) won a second term on Saturday, overcoming a wealthy Republican challenger in a state that has increasingly leaned to the right in recent years.
With 96 percent of precincts reporting, Edwards led businessman Eddie Rispone (R) by 50.7 percent to 49.3 percent margin. The Associated Press projected Edwards would hold on.
Edwards campaigned on his accomplishments over the course of his first four years in office, when he expanded Medicaid to cover low-income residents, broke a budget deadlock with the state legislature and signed teacher pay raises into law.
Rispone tried to nationalize the contest in a state where President Trumpremains broadly popular. He compared Edwards to national Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), even though Edwards is pro-life and supports gun ownership rights.
But voters still tend to see state-level races through a different lens than they view federal contests. Edwards is one of a handful of governors who represent a state their party’s presidential candidate will not win — Democrats who run red states like Kansas and Montana and Republicans who govern Massachusetts, Maryland and Vermont…..
Note….
Governor Edwards is hardly a ‘progressive’….
Recent governor wins in the South should serve as a warning to Democrats….
image….latimes
John Favreau
@jonfavs
One President whose candidate did win tonight:
Barack Obama, who recorded Get Out the Vote calls for John Bel Edwards and helped Dems win in the LA legislature through the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.
I hope Trump holds rallies for for Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Cory Gardner and Martha McSally. Lots of them
He, he, he….
Yea Scott…
They will probably STILL ask the guy to help them….
Don’t matter that he’s a loser at this….
The guy has ALWAYS been ABOUT HIMSELF….
It doesn’t seem to translate as it should NOT…
I again question what will be after Donald Trump exits the stage
I don’t know if the Trump rally hurt Rispone. Edwards was popular before the vote, and he won by about what he was expected to win by.
On the other hand, if Trump is not an asset in Louisiana, then he less likely to be so in states like Arizona and Maine.