Gaines was a three-term state representative for District 57, which covers St. John the Baptist and St. Charles parishes.
Three Republicans are vying to challenge incumbent Democratic Congresswoman
Democratic leaders from several Midwest battleground states talked election strategy Thursday as they prepare for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Democratic Party has new leadership.Randal Gaines, a former state representative, was selected Saturday as the political group’s new chair after a set of procedural moves ended with him being the only candidate nominated for the position. His selection ousted Katie Bernhardt, who had been chair for the past four years, The Advocate reported.“It is critical that we use this unifying, watershed moment to rebuild, refocus, and recruit the...
Marjorie Taylor Greene continues her fierce diatribe against Speaker Mike Johnson and hence her own party, telling Steve Bannon on his War Room podcast that Republican voters are "absolutely done" with the GOP. "They're done with the Republican party. They're absolutely done with Republican leadership like Mike Johnson, who totally sold us out to the Democrats!" — Read the rest
Neither Cllr Tom Hunt, the leader of the council, nor Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, have to stand this year – but Cllr Douglas Johnson from the Green Party does. Cllr Johnson, the leader of his group, was able to win comfortably in 2021 and now he is aiming to do that again, keeping the City ward a Green ward. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I’m a councillor for City ward, I was elected in 2016 and again in 2021. “I chair the council’s housing...
Richard Nixon infected the modern Republican party with a sickness that would kill it – Donald Trump has finished the jobLast Sunday, on ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asked Chris Sununu, New Hampshire’s Republican governor, about his recent switch from supporting Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, for the Republican presidential nomination to supporting former president Donald Trump.“Your words were very, very clear on January 11, 2021,” Stephanopoulos reminded...
The passing of former Florida senator and governor Bob Graham offers some
For centuries the Democrats have been the “tax and spend guys.” They’re the party of American Treasury confiscatory distribution — to themselves.
For the longest time, it was generally assumed that high-turnout elections would benefit the Democratic Party. But recent polling and election data suggest that this conventional thinking is disconnected from reality. According to a recent poll of the 2024 presidential election, those who had voted in multiple elections since 2018 were more likely to vote […]
(WHTM) - Republican candidates running statewide this fall held a series of kickoff events on Thursday, including one at a suburban Harrisburg business. The event featured Senate candidate Dave McCormick, Attorney General candidate Dave Sunday, Treasurer Stacy Garrity, and Auditor General Tim DeFoor. "We got one senator who won't wear a suit and we got []
Attacks on elections have become more multifaceted over the past decade, but fears of a hacked election — real or perceived — remain one of the biggest threats.