The tenant of the White House had made intense efforts to support the Republican candidate in this southern state.
Louisiana re-elected Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards on Saturday, Nov. 16, inflicting a snub on US President Donald Trump. The tenant of the White House had made intense efforts to support the Republican candidate in this southern state.
According to US media reports, John Bel Edwards, a moderate Democrat, won with 51.3% of the vote against 48.7% for his opponent, the businessman Eddie Rispone. The latter admitted his defeat.
Revealing test
The defeat of Mr. Rispone appears as a setback for Donald Trump, who won in Louisiana with twenty points in advance in the presidential election of 2016. The tenant of the White House had made three trips to that state to support the candidate of his party.
In early November, the outgoing Republican governor was beaten in extremis by his Democratic opponent in Kentucky, another state where Mr. Trump had overwhelmingly won in 2016. At the same time, the opposition also resumed for the first time. times in over 25 years the control of both Houses of the Virginia Assembly.
In a highly divided country, these polls were expected as a revealing test of the popularity of Donald Trump, the fourth president of American history threatened by impeachment proceedings in the Ukrainian case.
