Bill Cassidy did not survive Louisiana.

The Republican senator who voted to convict President Trump in the Democrats’ second impeachment push has now been knocked out of his own GOP primary.

Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow finished first.

Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming finished second.

Cassidy finished third and failed to even make the June 27 runoff.

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That is a political humiliation.

It is also a massive win for President Trump and for Republican voters who were tired of being told to forget Cassidy’s betrayal.

The Gateway Pundit covered the MAGA victory in Louisiana:

The Louisiana result was brutal for Cassidy. The incumbent senator finished third in the Republican primary and was knocked out of the race entirely, while Trump-backed Rep. Julia Letlow and State Treasurer John Fleming advanced to the June 27 runoff.

Cassidy’s 2021 vote to convict President Trump during the second impeachment trial was the defining betrayal that Louisiana Republicans finally punished at the ballot box. President Trump had personally urged Louisiana Republicans to reject Cassidy and back Letlow, calling her a total winner and an America First fighter.

The result turned Trump’s warning shot into a completed political takedown. Cassidy entered the race as a sitting senator with the usual advantages of incumbency, but Louisiana Republicans sent the Trump-backed challenger to first place and denied Cassidy even a place in the runoff.

That is the difference between talk and power. Trump told voters Cassidy had to go, and Republican primary voters delivered the result.

That impeachment vote was always going to catch up with Cassidy.

Louisiana Republicans did not forget it, and Trump made sure they had a clear alternative.

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Washington Examiner reported the vote breakdown and the runoff math:

Cassidy placed third and was disqualified from the June 27 runoff for the seat he has held since 2015. When the race was called, Letlow had 44.9% of the vote, Fleming had 28.4%, and Cassidy had 24.6%.

Under Louisiana law, the top two finishers advance to a runoff when no candidate wins an outright majority. That left Letlow and Fleming moving forward while Cassidy’s reelection campaign ended on primary night.

The report called Cassidy’s loss a dramatic fall from political grace and said it represented a major victory for Trump. Trump personally encouraged Letlow to challenge Cassidy and endorsed her in January, then congratulated her on election night.

Trump later said Cassidy’s disloyalty was now part of legend and thanked Louisiana voters for the result. The seat is expected to remain Republican, meaning Letlow and Fleming are now fighting for a nomination that will likely decide the state’s next senator.

The result also showed how weak the normal incumbent firewall became once Cassidy lost the base. Money, title, and Senate seniority were not enough to carry him past the first round.

The numbers tell the whole story.

Cassidy did not lose a close runoff. He never got there.

AP confirmed how directly Trump’s endorsement shaped the race:

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Letlow thanked President Trump after advancing to the runoff and called him the best president the country has ever had. She told supporters there is no greater endorsement than Trump’s endorsement.

Letlow also brought the race back to Cassidy’s impeachment vote, saying Louisiana was not pleased with that vote and took it as a sign that Cassidy had turned his back on Louisiana voters.

Trump hit Cassidy hard on election day, calling him a disloyal disaster and a terrible guy. After the result, Trump congratulated Letlow for a fantastic race and said she beat an incumbent senator by record-setting numbers.

AP also reported that Letlow and Fleming could not avoid a runoff because neither passed 50%. The winner of that runoff is expected to be strongly favored in November because Louisiana remains a Republican state.

That makes Saturday’s primary more than a symbolic protest vote. It likely removed Cassidy from the Senate pipeline entirely and left the Trump-aligned lane to decide who replaces him.

It also undercut the old consultant line that Trump voters would eventually cool down and accept the incumbent. They did the opposite.

Even the wire coverage had to acknowledge the central fact of the race.

Trump’s endorsement mattered, and Cassidy’s impeachment vote defined the result.

Townhall put the loss in historical context:

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Cassidy became the first incumbent senator since 2012 to lose a primary challenge. Trump-endorsed Julia Letlow and John Fleming advanced to the runoff, while Cassidy was removed from the race before the final round.

The defeat was tied directly to Cassidy’s vote to convict President Trump during the impeachment effort pursued by Democrats. The second round of voting will be held on June 27.

The historical point matters because Senate incumbents almost never lose this way. Cassidy did not merely take damage from the MAGA base.

He became the rare sitting senator whose own party voters ended the campaign before the nomination was settled. That is a warning to every Republican who thinks the base will forget a vote against Trump.

The broader message is simple. A Senate seat does not belong to the consultant class, and Republican voters can still take it back when an incumbent stops representing them.

For years, Republican voters were lectured that they had to move on from the politicians who sided with Democrats against Trump.

Louisiana just gave a very different answer.

The June 27 runoff will decide whether Letlow or Fleming carries the Republican banner into November.

But the headline from Saturday night is already settled: President Trump told Louisiana to dump Bill Cassidy, and Louisiana listened.

 

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