Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards' quest for a second term as the Deep South's only Democratic governor will stretch over another month.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards' quest for a second term as the Deep South's only Democratic governor will stretch over another month, as voters denied him an outright primary win Saturday and sent him to a runoff election.
"We've got a little more work to do," Edwards told supporters Saturday night. He added:"My fellow Louisianans, we are not going backward. That is exactly what Eddie Rispone would have us do. He wants to put us right back on the path that led us into the ditch.""With your prayers, we're going to win. This is just the first step," Rispone told cheering supporters."We're going to turn this state around.
National Republicans bombarded Louisiana with advertising and get-out-the-vote events to keep Edwards below 50%, with Trump making a last-minute, in-person appeal to Louisiana's voters. Three other lesser-known contenders also ran."Prepare yourselves," Edwards told his supporters."Over the next five weeks, the partisan forces in Washington, D.C., are going to pull out all the stops.
He expanded Medicaid, adding nearly a half-million new people to government-financed health care and lowering the state's uninsured rate below the national average. A bipartisan criminal sentencing law rewrite he championed ended Louisiana's tenure as the nation's top jailer."He has done a very good job in the teeth of opposition from people who should know better. You can't lower taxes and run a good state," she said at her Baton Rouge polling place.
"We need a CEO, someone with serious business experience," Rispone told supporters."Both sides of the aisle have failed you. It's time to do something different."
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