October 15, 2019
Brutal wipeout for Democrats in Louisiana, and the press trying to keep it quiet
By
Monica Showalter
The last of the Louisiana state election numbers are in, and it's not pretty for the Democrats.
Not only does its moderate Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, face a runoff, as noted
here, but the state Senate has taken a supermajority. And a whole bunch of key state offices went squarely to Republicans. Funny how the press isn't covering this much.
But Guy Benson at Townhall is, and he found a Democratic Party "
decimated":
Among statewide office-holders, the incumbent GOP Lieutenant Governor (68 percent), Attorney General (66 percent), Treasurer (60 percent, and Agricultural Commissioner (58 percent)
were all re-elected without the need for a run-off, under the state's 'jungle primary'-style system. It also appears that the
solid Republican majorities in both state legislative chambers will
remain intact — with the GOP expanding its Senate advantage into super-majority territory by picking up a pair of Democratic seats:
The Hill, which also had a look, but ran an anodyne headline that didn't match the content of its three-alarm fire for Democrats, noted that this Democrat loss came in a special election, and those normally don't draw
large numbers of voters, but this one did.
And not only did the Republicans take a Senate supermajority, but they almost snapped away the state House,
too:
Amid record turnout for what is usually a sleepy off-year, irregular election, Louisiana Republicans locked up enough seats in the state Senate to amount to a super majority. The party came within seven seats of winning a super majority in the state House, too, with eight runoff elections to come in November.
What's more, the outlook continues to get strong for the GOP in Louisiana because the Republicans have consolidated: the GOP gubernatorial candidate third-place finisher, Ralph Abraham, endorsed the second-place finisher, Eddie Rispone.
This makes the whole thing sound like a wave election, with a big warning to the Left for 2020.
And that ought to be big news — a warning to the impeachment-obsessed Beltway Democrats that the voters aren't buying into their repeated stunts to unseat President Trump.
The lack of press coverage of what ought to be a front-page story almost seems delusional.
