Polls are open for a couple more hours. Can Jamie Davis pull off the upset in the U.S. Senate race? Jeff Palermo has the story.
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The outcome of the Senate race was thrown into question in part because of a pair of polls that show Davis and Letlow tied. John Couvillon with JMC Analytics and Polling says if the Letlow campaign had a poll that showed her way ahead, it would have released it.
The sixth congressional district race is among the most closely watched ones here in Louisiana, with 10 candidates – six Republicans, three Democrats and one Libertarian – seeking to succeed Cleo Fields, who declined to run for re-election. At a candidate forum in Baton Rouge yesterday, Republican Michael Mebruer highlighted one excise tax he would eliminate that he says would in turn bring the cost of consumer goods down.
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As much as that seat is expected to flip to the Republicans, the House as a whole will in all likelihood flip to the Democrats. Jeremy Alford, the publisher of LaPolitics-dot-com, says flipping that chamber would cost Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise the speakership and the majority leadership, respectively.