Former Rep. John Fleming, now the Louisiana state treasurer, on Wednesday launched a 2026 primary challenge to Sen. Bill Cassidy, a fellow Republican who voted to convict Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial.
Fleming, who served four terms in the House and later worked in the first Trump administration, cited his “deep sense of pride” in having served the former president and said Cassidy had “failed the people of Louisiana.”
“A number of Republicans walked away from President Trump in the last year of his first term, but those who turned their backs on him and America First were not committed to his fight to make America great again,” Fleming said in a statement announcing his campaign.
