Louisiana Republican John Kennedy new US Senator

Democratic and GOP leaders are working to claim the seat for their party – and it’s the last chance for Democrats to snag a seat following an election that saw them soundly defeated in most USA congressional races.

Campbell played down his differences with Trump during the race, but said he would act as a check on him in Congress.

President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he wants to see more oil refineries built in the United States, and pledged to do away with “job-killing restrictions” suppressing the energy sector. Schedler encouraged participation, saying: “There are still many important elections to be decided in our state”. In 2004, he unsuccessfully ran for Senate as a Democrat, then later switched to the GOP but also launched an unsuccessful Senate bid in 2008.

Democrats demonstrated this intermingling of Senate and presidential politics by bolstering Campbell’s campaign with more than 50,000 donations, some seeing Louisiana’s runoff as a final opportunity for a Democratic victory.

The president-elect attacked Campbell, casting him as beholden to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump’s transition team described the conversation as a “short congratulatory call”. “Louisiana voters sent a clear message tonight and I’m ready to go to Washington, D.C., to fight for our people”. John Bel Edwards or Louisiana’s legislative leaders know how to dig out of the state’s perpetual budget woes. Polls have shown Kennedy with a comfortable lead.

“It’s not like they would like you to believe”.

Trump is also determining the future of his business empire, which he has said he will leave although he could shift control to his adult children. He opposes abortion and efforts to repeal the federal health overhaul. Instead, all candidates for office run on the same ballot in November.

“I begin each day on bended knee, but I kneel to our savior”, he said.

He later said, “I don’t even need your vote”, before pausing and adding, “In four years I will need your vote!”

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A victory for Kennedy would give the Republicans a 52-seat majority in the 100-seat U.S. Senate.

In the 3rd District race, the two Republicans have traded blistering attacks: Scott Angelle, a member of the Public Service Commission and well-known public official for almost 30 years, and Clay Higgins, a local celebrity known as the “Cajun John Wayne” for attention-grabbing Crime Stoppers videos he filmed when he was a sheriff’s captain. But Higgins – who made attention-grabbing Crime Stoppers videos as a sheriff’s captain – capitalized on disenchantment with career politicians to trounce Angelle with only a fraction of his money and a bare-bones organization.