RFK Jr.-Aligned Group Backs Primary Challenger to Sen. Bill Cassidy

RFK Jr.-Aligned Group Backs Primary Challenger to Sen. Bill Cassidy

A group aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is spending $1 million to help Rep. Julia Letlow (R-La.) defeat Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in a contested Senate primary, its leader said on Feb. 9. Tony Lyons, president of MAHA Action, said during a Heritage Foundation event in Washington that Letlow supports measures popular with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, including medical freedom and healthy school lunches. “We …

Cassidy Draws Primary Challengers

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s 2026 U.S. Senate race is accelerating into a marquee Republican primary, with incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy facing a growing field of challengers ahead of the state’s newly restored partisan primary elections.  Among the Republicans seeking the seat is Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, a physician, military veteran, and former U.S. congressman who has positioned his candidacy around fiscal stewardship and a har…

‘LaPolitics’: Cassidy-Letlow battle heats up as qualifying for primary nears

With qualifying for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race set to commence Wednesday, big money and serious surrogates are lining up behind the lead contenders as other candidates who once made up a rather large field continue to drop out. All eyes are focusing on incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy and his main competition, U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, who has the unmissable support of President Donald Trump.  In her first ever statewide bid for office, Letlow will b…