Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming announces bid to run for U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy's seat
Republican Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming announced on Wednesday that he will be running for U.S. Senate, hoping to unseat GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, who is up for reelection in two years
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming, a Republican and appointee of Donald Trump's during his first term as president, has announced that he will run for U.S. Senate in the hopes of unseating current member Bill Cassidy, also a Republican, who is up for reelection in 2026.
In a news release Wednesday, Fleming said that U.S. Sen. Cassidy “has failed the people of Louisiana.” He lambasted the lawmaker for being one of seven Republicans in Senate who joined Democrats in voting to convict Trump in the then-President's impeachment trial after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol.
“A number of Republicans walked away from President Trump in the last year of his first term,” Fleming, 73, said. “But those who turned their backs on him and America First were not committed to his fight to make America great."
Cassidy, who is in his second term, is up for reelection in reliably red Louisiana, where residents overwhelmingly supported Trump during the past three presidential elections. While Cassidy, 67, won his last election handily, he did not face another well-known GOP candidate.
