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The senator lost his primary in Louisiana on Saturday, five years after voting to convict Trump on impeachment charges following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said Saturday that the U.S. “is not about one individual” as he conceded the race to Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) and Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming (R). Letlow, who was endorsed by President Trump,
The Republican senator lost his primary after Trump urged voters to oust him.
Sen. Bill Cassidy’s loss in the Louisiana Republican primary over the weekend puts the future of the powerful Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in flux. During his tenure as HELP chair,
Cassidy lost out in his re-election bid, failing to even make the runoff as Trump-backed Congresswoman Julia Letlow and State Treasurer John Fleming finished first and second. “Absolutely not,” he said firmly when asked if he would consider running for a congressional seat given the redrawing of the state’s districts,
The Senate Republican stressed that he stood by his past impeachment vote.
Cassidy shared the encounter that she had at the Fort Lauderdale airport to her 1.8 million TikTok followers on May 15