President Donald Trump claimed his latest seat Saturday when Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana failed to clear the runoff in the state’s top-two Republican primary.
Cassidy, a physician by trade, had attempted to make nice with Trump after he voted to convict the president in 2021 by supporting the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary. But Trump didn’t buy it and instead endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow. She and former Rep. John Fleming will now face off in a runoff primary. That result came after Trump knocked off five Republican Indiana state senators earlier in the month who opposed his efforts at redrawing the state’s congressional map mid-decade to give him an advantage in the 2026 midterm.
