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President Donald Trump celebrated Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s loss in Louisiana’s Senate primary on Saturday, where voters decisively ousted the senator who supported the president’s impeachment trial.
The president endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow, and Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming trounced the senator and will advance to the state’s jungle primary later this summer.
In a post to Truth Social, President Trump congratulated Letlow, whom he previously endorsed, on her primary win.
“Congratulations to Congresswoman Julia Letlow on a fantastic race, beating an Incumbent Senator by Record Setting Numbers. This is the first time in History that a sitting Senator has lost by such large numbers in a Primary, unable to even go forward,” he wrote Saturday night.
“Julia Letlow is a fantastic person and, after taking care of some additional business, will make a brilliant Senator for the Great People of Louisiana, a State that I love, helped make prosperous with my Energy Policies and everything else, and won six times in a row, including Primaries. Julia Letlow is a spectacular person, and will never let you down!” he added.
As part of Louisiana’s jungle primary system, Letlow and Fleming will face off against each other again in another matchup on June 27. These runoffs are only triggered if no candidate earns over 50 percent of the vote.
With 99 percent of the vote reported, Letlow received 44.8 percent to Fleming’s 28.3 percent.
Cassidy, the two-term incumbent Republican senator who supported President Trump’s 2021 impeachment, placed third among primary voters with 24.8 percent, NBC projects.
The president lauded Cassidy’s stunning defeat, thanking primary voters in a separate post for ending his decades-long political career.
“Bill Cassidy, after falsely using his “relationship” with me during his political career, and winning Elections because of it, voted to impeach me on preposterous charges that were fake then, and now, are criminally insane! His disloyalty to the man who got him elected is now a part of legend, and it’s nice to see that his political career is OVER!” he wrote.
He added, “I’d like to thank the Great People of the State of Louisiana, and this Big Victory will only make me work even harder for your success, and all that comes with it. I LOVE YOU ALL.”
Ever since Cassidy voted to convict President Trump for incitement of insurrection in 2021, and supposedly tanking the president’s surgeon general nomination of Casey Means, President Trump has frequently railed against the senator.
His endorsement of Letlow made a significant impact in Louisiana, where he had previously carried the state by 22 points in 2024.
Nonetheless, the winner of the jungle primary will advance to the November election, which is expected to remain in Republican hands in the heavily conservative state.
