In the Deep South, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards seeks to fend off a challenge from his GOP rival, who is backed by Pres. Trump, as voters head to the polls.
In the Deep South, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards seeks to fend off a challenge from his GOP rival, who is backed by President Donald Trump, as voters head to the polls on Saturday.
GOP candidate Eddie Rispone, an entrepreneur and native of northern Baton Rouge, is counting on the president's popularity to offset his struggles as a political outsider -- who began his bid with little state-wide name recognition up against the incumbent -- and carry him over the finish line Saturday as Trump often claims he does in competitive races.
“So Trump took a loss, so you got to give me a big win please,” he told the crowd. “The next step to victory begins on Saturday. Your vote on Saturday is your chance to show the radical left Washington Democrats that Louisiana rejects their extremism and their corruption. You will not allow your voice to be silenced, you will not allow your vote to be canceled.”
“The progress that we have made is still at stake. It took all of us to put Louisiana back on a path to prosperity, but it only takes one person putting Washington style politics over the people of Louisiana to reverse everything that we have accomplished together,” Edwards said last month on the night of the primary.
"We need a pro-Trump conservative, an outsider, someone with serious business skills, someone that's not beholden to special interests," Rispone told the crowd at the Monroe rally earlier this month."Someone that's got backbone to go against the status quo, someone like Trump."
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