BOOM! The swamp is draining in Louisiana!
In a stunning and thoroughly deserved defeat, establishment RINO Sen. Bill Cassidy has been crushed in Saturday’s GOP Senate primary, finishing a humiliating third place and getting booted from the race entirely.
Trump-backed Rep. Julia Letlow and State Treasurer John Fleming have advanced to the June 27 runoff, delivering a massive win for President Donald Trump’s America First agenda and his ongoing revenge tour against disloyal Republicans who betrayed him.
Cassidy, the three-term incumbent who voted to convict President Trump during the sham January 6 impeachment circus, has finally been held accountable by Louisiana patriots.
As The Gateway Pundit reported just days ago in our explosive piece, “DRAIN THE SWAMP: Trump Calls on Louisiana Patriots to OUST RINO Bill Cassidy – Endorses Julia Letlow in Critical Saturday Primary!”, President Trump personally rallied voters to reject this RINO and back a true fighter in Julia Letlow.
Trump called Letlow a “TOTAL WINNER,” a “Great Star,” and a proven America First champion who will deliver for Louisiana on the economy, border security, energy dominance, and protecting the Second Amendment. He urged every Republican in the state to VOTE OUT Cassidy once and for all.
And they listened.
IT’S OFFICIAL
Incumbent Senator Bill Cassidy has been DEFEATED after coming in 3rd place.
Cassidy voted to convict President Trump, voted for red flag laws, & voted for Senate Majority Leader Thune.
Louisiana will elect a new Senator this November. pic.twitter.com/bYzpzX2MaA
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) May 17, 2026
Politico reported:
It’s a remarkable result: Cassidy is the first senator of either party to lose in a primary since 2012. The two-term senator and chair of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee failed to even make the runoff, finishing with roughly a quarter of the vote.
Both Letlow and Fleming benefited from MAGA voters’ frustrations with Cassidy for his 2021 vote to convict Trump on impeachment charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, and for his skepticism of Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary.
Jim Hᴏft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.
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