OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
1:27 PM – Saturday, May 16, 2026
President Donald Trump called Senator Bill Cassidy a “disloyal disaster” ahead of Louisiana’s primary elections over the weekend.
“Bill Cassidy is a sleazebag, a terrible guy, who is BAD FOR LOUISIANA,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Saturday. “Now he’s going to get CLOBBERED, hopefully, in today’s BIG election, by two great people!!!”
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Louisianans head to the polls on Saturday to decide which two candidates will face off in the state’s general Senate election in November.
Incumbent Cassidy (R-La.) has held his seat in the upper chamber since 2015. He is running against Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, whose current term ends in January 2028, U.S. Representative Julia Letlow (R-La.), who assumed office in 2021, and Mark Spencer, a Catholic business owner and Louisiana native.
An Emerson College poll from April 24th through the 26th found that a sample of 500 likely Republican primary voters favored Fleming, who received 28% support, only beating Letlow by one percentage point. Cassidy received 21% support, with 22% of voters undecided, and the remaining 2% favoring Spencer.
President Trump endorsed Letlow, urging Louisiana voters to “VOTE TODAY FOR JULIA L. She is a winner who will NEVER let you down.”
On the Democrat side, Navy veteran Gary Crockett, former policy advisor Nick Albares and row-crop farmer Jamie Davis Jr. all hope to flip the seat in November.
Currently, Republicans have a 53-45 majority in the chamber. Of the 100 seats in the Senate, Republicans hold 22 seats that are up for election, while Democrats hold 13.
Cassidy was one of only seven Senate Republicans who voted in early 2021 to convict Trump after he was impeached by the House for his alleged role in the January 6th forced entry into the United States Capitol building. Cassidy has largely supported Trump’s agenda since his second term, but has criticized Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Trump appointee.
Polls close in Louisiana at 8:00 p.m. local time.
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