GOP Sen­a­tor Who Vot­ed To Con­vict Trump Over J6 Draws Pri­ma­ry Chal­lenger

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GOP Senator Who Voted To Convict Trump Over J6 Draws Primary Challenger

A promi­nent Repub­li­can sen­a­tor who vot­ed to con­vict Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump fol­low­ing the Senate’s Jan­u­ary 6th impeach­ment tri­al will face a com­pet­i­tive pri­ma­ry chal­lenger.

Louisiana state Trea­sur­er John Flem­ing, who served in mul­ti­ple posi­tions dur­ing the first Trump admin­is­tra­tion, announced in a press release Wednes­day that he will pri­ma­ry Repub­li­can Louisiana Sen. Bill Cas­sidy who is up for reelec­tion in 2026. (RELATED: GOP Sen­a­tor Squirms As NBC Host Press­es Him On Trump Sup­port)

“A num­ber of Repub­li­cans walked away from Pres­i­dent Trump in the last year of his first term,” Flem­ing, who also served four terms in the House dur­ing which he co-found­ed the Free­dom Cau­cus, said in a press release. “Sen­a­tor Cas­sidy has failed the peo­ple of Louisiana.”

“The oppor­tu­ni­ty to stand with him [Trump] for the prin­ci­ples of Amer­i­ca First is why I seek to serve the cit­i­zens of Louisiana in the Unit­ed States Sen­ate,” Flem­ing added.

Cas­sidy, the incom­ing chair of the Sen­ate Health, Edu­ca­tion, Labor and Pen­sions Com­mit­tee, was one of sev­en GOP sen­a­tors that vot­ed to con­vict Trump fol­low­ing his sec­ond impeach­ment tri­al in Jan­u­ary 2021. The Louisiana Repub­li­can also declined to endorse Trump’s 2024 pres­i­den­tial cam­paign. (RELATED: Repub­li­can Sen­a­tor Cas­sidy: ‘I Don’t Think Trump Can Win A Gen­er­al Elec­tion’)

Cas­sidy has yet to launch an offi­cial reelec­tion bid for a third term, but told USA Today in Novem­ber that “I’m obvi­ous­ly work­ing hard toward 2026.” He has more than $5.8 mil­lion to ward off poten­tial chal­lengers, accord­ing to Fed­er­al Elec­tion Com­mis­sion data.

A Cas­sidy spokesper­son empha­sized the Louisiana senator’s leg­isla­tive accom­plish­ments in a state­ment to the Dai­ly Caller News Foun­da­tion.

“This week, Sen­a­tor Cas­sidy met with Pres­i­dent Trump’s VA [Vet­er­ans Affairs] nom­i­nee, secured tax relief for the vic­tims of nat­ur­al dis­as­ters in Louisiana and else­where, passed bills to reduce mater­nal mor­tal­i­ty and to make it eas­i­er to donate to Vet­er­ans orga­ni­za­tions, pushed Chuck Schumer to hold a vote to repeal WEP [Wind­fall Elim­i­na­tion Penal­ty] and GPO [Gov­ern­ment Pen­sion Off­set], and con­tin­ues to work on impor­tant leg­is­la­tion,” a Cas­sidy spokesper­son told the DCNF. “The time will come to focus on the cam­paign, and when that hap­pens, he will see who is still in the race.”

Trump crit­i­cized Cas­sidy on Truth Social ear­li­er this year in a state­ment that called his loy­al­ty to the pres­i­dent-elect into ques­tion.

“One of the worst Sen­a­tors in the Unit­ed States Sen­ate is, with­out ques­tion, Bill Cas­sidy, A TOTAL FLAKE, Repub­li­can though he may be,” Trump wrote in April. “He cam­paigned in the Great State of Louisiana on TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP, and was absolute­ly thrilled when he was able to get my very impor­tant Endorse­ment. His adver­tise­ments were all about ‘TRUMP,’ and our rela­tion­ship, which basi­cal­ly didn’t exist in that I did not know him well. In any event, he eas­i­ly won Re-Elec­tion. Cas­sidy is a total ‘stiff,’ but Louisiana didn’t need him to pro­tect them, because they had ME, 100%!”

“Nev­er­the­less, when the Democ­rats’ Impeach­ment Hoax start­ed, this Lame­brain Sen­a­tor actu­al­ly vot­ed against me. He thought it was so ‘cool,’ until he got home, and was lit­er­al­ly pelt­ed with every­thing that could be used for such an inglo­ri­ous hap­pen­ing, espe­cial­ly words, with lots of foul lan­guage thrown in,” Trump added.

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