{"id":81185,"date":"2026-05-17T03:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/letlow-fleming-advance-to-runoff-in-louisiana-gop-senate-primary-cbs-news-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T03:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:29:39","slug":"letlow-fleming-advance-to-runoff-in-louisiana-gop-senate-primary-cbs-news-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/letlow-fleming-advance-to-runoff-in-louisiana-gop-senate-primary-cbs-news-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Letlow, Fleming advance to runoff in Louisiana GOP Senate primary, CBS News projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>CBS News projects Rep. Julia Letlow and Louisiana state Treasurer John Fleming advanced to a runoff in Saturday&#8217;s Senate Republican primary, knocking out incumbent GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, 68, was one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict President Trump in his impeachment trial after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in 2021. And although he&#8217;s emphasized his cooperation with the administration in recent years, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115913724519885202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Letlow in January, encouraging her to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-bill-cassidy-julia-letlow-louisiana-senate\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">challenge Cassidy<\/a><\/span> for the seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116587615659706793%24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took to Truth Social<\/a> late Saturday night to congratulate Letlow, saying she ran &#8220;a fantastic race, beating an Incumbent Senator by Record Setting Numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Letlow is a fantastic person and, after taking care of some additional business, will make a brilliant Senator for the Great People of Louisiana, a State that I love, helped make prosperous with my Energy Policies and everything else,&#8221; Mr. Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Letlow, 45, became the first Republican woman elected to represent Louisiana in Congress in 2021 after winning a special election for Louisiana&#8217;s 5th Congressional District following the death of her husband, who died in 2020 from complications related to COVID-19 before he could be sworn into office. She&#8217;s hammered Cassidy as disloyal to the GOP, claiming Louisiana &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t have to wonder how our senator will vote when the pressure&#8217;s on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/16\/7b9a3342-5365-4f36-b63f-c13d5090b40c\/thumbnail\/620x550\/10d942499c9123890c3a75c3e3aa36d6\/letlow-fleming-runoff-1.jpg#\" alt=\"letlow-fleming-runoff-1.jpg \" height=\"550\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/16\/7b9a3342-5365-4f36-b63f-c13d5090b40c\/thumbnail\/620x550\/10d942499c9123890c3a75c3e3aa36d6\/letlow-fleming-runoff-1.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/05\/16\/7b9a3342-5365-4f36-b63f-c13d5090b40c\/thumbnail\/1240x1100\/0183519bc61d109fde2cd7ed3e7cb676\/letlow-fleming-runoff-1.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and Louisiana state Treasurer John Fleming advanced to a runoff in Saturday&#8217;s Louisiana GOP Senate primary, CBS News projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Letlow had touted her endorsement from Mr. Trump, while Fleming, who worked in the first Trump administration and represented Louisiana in the U.S. House, had called himself &#8220;the only conservative MAGA Republican&#8221; in the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his vote to impeach Mr. Trump, Cassidy has been at odds with the administration over HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s leadership, despite delivering the key vote to advance Kennedy&#8217;s nomination last year. Cassidy, a medical doctor, has broken with the HHS secretary on multiple occasions, including slamming a change to the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants and calling for the postponement of key vaccine advisory panel meetings.<\/p>\n<p>While Letlow accused Cassidy of not being sufficiently conservative, Cassidy claimed the same about his Trump-backed opponent, pointing to comments she made in 2020 supporting DEI programs in education. Fleming had also accused Letlow of supporting DEI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The contest is the latest sign of the president&#8217;s influence, despite approaching the back half of his final term. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump&#8217;s gambit to push Republicans out of the state Senate in Indiana who defied his redistricting efforts were largely successful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Senate Republicans&#8217; campaign arm, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, had supported Cassidy, who was seeking a third term in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Thursday that &#8220;Bill Cassidy has been a terrific senator for Louisiana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tim Scott and I at the NRSC, our job is to do what we can to support incumbents,&#8221; Thune said. &#8220;But obviously the voters of Louisiana are going to make that decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, third-generation farmer Jamie Davis secured the party&#8217;s nomination<strong>, <\/strong>CBS News projects, defeating<strong>\u00a0<br \/><\/strong>Nick Albares, a former policy advisor to Gov. John Bel Edwards, and Navy veteran Gary Crockett. But Louisiana is a solidly red state, where Mr. Trump won 60% of the vote in 2024. And the state last elected a Democrat to the Senate in 2008, making the winner of the GOP primary likely to win the Senate seat in November&#8217;s general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana&#8217;s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/louisiana-house-primaries-suspended\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">suspended the state&#8217;s House primaries<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to strike down the state&#8217;s congressional map earlier this month, while other races, including the Senate primaries, were set to go on as planned.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/letlow-fleming-advance-to-runoff-louisiana-gop-senate-primary-cbs-news-projects\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 CBS News projects Rep. 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