Republicans in New Hampshire might want to call Lousiana and ask them what the secret sauce is to their recent electoral success. After Saturday’s run-off elections, “Republicans secured all of Louisiana’s statewide offices for the first time since 2015.”
The GOP success, in a state that has had a Democrat in the governor’s office for the past eight years, means that Republicans secured all of Louisiana’s statewide offices for the first time since 2015. In addition, the GOP holds a two-third supermajority in the House and Senate.
Liz Murrill was elected as attorney general, Nancy Landry as secretary of state and John Fleming as treasurer. The results also mean Louisiana will have its first female attorney general and first woman elected as secretary of state.
Saturday’s election completes the shaping of Louisiana’s executive branch, where most incumbents didn’t seek reelection and opened the door for new leadership in some of the most powerful positions.
The media has played up Republican losses in an apparent effort to depress energy and turnout. You can’t win. Don’t bother trying. But Louisiana tells a different story. Successive victories have given Republicans control of every state office with supermajorities in both chambers of the legislature.
And maybe it’s not as big a story as it could be coming out of the otherwise dee-red South. Had it happened in New Hampshire, it might be more telling, but the Republicans here have struggled to win special elections with one bright spot. Recent Municipal elections went far better for the GOP than is the norm. Manchester, the State’s largest city, returned a Republican to the Mayor’s office after six years of Democrat rule. It also gave the board of alderman a favorable GOP majority.
The Louisana special election last Saturday had a low turnout, too, so we see the intersection. The Media and Dems are hyping wins to try and shore up a base that appears unwilling to come out in adequate numbers for every election consistently, and they are projecting that on Republicans.
No one doubts that the left is planning to steal 2024, but you must be “stealably” close to make it less noticeable. If they can’t get their voters to vote Dem in large enough numbers, it will be increasingly difficult to hide what they are doing.
I’m sure they’ll find a way around that, and as we’ve noted repeatedly from several authors, there’s no evidence Republicans are doing enough, if anything, to make it harder. Absent that, the rest of it is, as they say, rearranging deck chairs on another Titanic.
