John Bel Edwards, the Deep South's only Democratic governor, wins reelection in Louisiana:
In the Deep South, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards will stave off a challenge from a Donald Trump-backed GOP rival to win reelection in Louisiana's tight gubernatorial race, the Associated Press has projected.
The runoff election came amid a looming impeachment investigation that seeped into the state's off-year contest, nationalizing the last gubernatorial election of 2019. The president injected himself into the race, testing his influence to deliver another GOP victory as he did in neighboring Mississippi last week, but failed to do in Kentucky.
Despite the state siding with Trump by 20 points in 2016 over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Pelican State elected a Democrat in 2015 when Edwards defeated David Vitter, a scandal-tarred Republican seeking to follow the unpopular Bobby Jindal, 56% to 44%. "We are not going back. But that is exactly what Eddie Rispone would have us do," he continued."He wants to put us right back on the path that led us straight into the ditch."
In an effort to nationalize the race around the fight over impeachment, Rispone repeatedly tried to cast his opponent as"a radical liberal Democrat," invoking rhetoric Trump frequently uses in a state that heavily leans red.
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