A Trump-backed challenger has defeated a two-term Republican senator who voted to convict the president at his 2021 impeachment trial.
Congresswoman Julia Letlow will advance to a runoff next month, ousting incumbent Bill Cassidy, who President Donald Trump branded a “disloyal disaster” ahead of Louisiana’s high-stakes contest on Saturday.
State treasurer John Fleming, another Trump-aligned candidate, also advanced to the Republican runoff for Louisiana’s Senate seat.
The top two candidates, Letlow and Fleming, will face off again in late June as neither won a simple majority. The candidate who wins the runoff will then run against a Democratic candidate in the general election.
Cassidy, 68, was one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump when the president was impeached after the 6 January attack on the Capitol in 2021. Trump was acquitted after the Senate voted 57-43, short of the two-thirds majority required.
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