Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor’s race, holding off a crowded field of candidates.
Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor’s race, holding off a crowded field of candidates.
Louisiana Democrats barely tried. The governor is elected by the entire state, so gerrymandering doesn’t really affect it directly. Indirectly, districts that are safe one way or the other tend to make people feel like they don’t need to vote because they are confident that their candidate will win. It permits and encourages complacency and apathy.
The LA Democrat party has been in disarray for years. The leadership has been ineffective at best and borderline (or in some cases outright) corrupt at worst. They ran an unlikeable candidate with a good bit of baggage as their candidate. Even if he had held Landry enough to force a runoff, he didn’t have enough support from Republican voters for it not to have been a landslide.