JOHN FLEMING (left) and JULIA LETLOW (right)
By the end of the day tomorrow, we will know exactly who will advance to the general election for U.S. Senate. On the Republican side, a runoff that had all the makings for a runaway is now anything but. Recent polls show John Fleming either closing the gap or catching Julia Letlow. ULM political science professor Pearson Cross says he feels that Letlow may have counted her chickens before they hatched.
“I think she thought once Bill Cassidy was dispensed with, she would be waltzing to a conclusion, but Fleming has made a race of it,” Cross said.
Whereas Fleming was the first candidate to launch a challenge against Bill Cassidy, Letlow was the last to enter the GOP race after getting President Trump’s endorsement. Cross says while that endorsement cleared out the field of challengers, that may actually end up working against Letlow.
“James Carville said that he thought it was because it was a change election; and that people were looking to change, and somehow they had identified Letlow as the establishment candidate,” Cross explained.
Cross says while the race between Fleming and Letlow appears to be coming down to the wire, the same cannot be said for Jamie Davis and Gary Crockett as they vie for the Democratic nomination.
“It appears that Jamie Davis has this wrapped up and is just waiting for this Saturday to put himself in the final election,” Cross noted.
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