{"id":277,"date":"2026-05-15T09:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:04:50","slug":"a-gop-senator-defied-trump-on-impeachment-and-voters-havent-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"A GOP senator defied Trump on impeachment, and voters haven\u2019t forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana faces two challengers \u2014 one endorsed by the president \u2014 in Saturday\u2019s primary, five years after voting to convict Trump.<\/strong><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=271\">Trump administration unveils new design for East Potomac golf course<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d58611a0008e0f805c28bf742d98c383-1024x587.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d58611a0008e0f805c28bf742d98c383-1024x587.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d58611a0008e0f805c28bf742d98c383-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d58611a0008e0f805c28bf742d98c383-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d58611a0008e0f805c28bf742d98c383-1536x880.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d58611a0008e0f805c28bf742d98c383-2048x1174.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) at a campaign stop on May 5 in Metairie, Louisiana. He hasn&#8217;t disavowed his vote in President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2021 impeachment trial, but he&#8217;s urging voters to look at his achievements instead. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>BATON ROUGE, La. \u2014 Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) had just easily won reelection when he broke with his party and voted to convict President Donald Trump at his 2021 impeachment trial for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Now Cassidy\u2019s six-year term is almost up \u2014 and that vote could cost him his seat.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116494601149993417\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116494601149993417\">has urged voters to oust Cassidy<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s Republican primary and endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow, who is running against him. But the president\u2019s endorsement has not cleared the field, testing his power to exact revenge on Republicans who dare to cross him.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy is locked in a competitive three-way race with Letlow and John Fleming, Louisiana\u2019s state treasurer and a former congressman, who has cast himself as the true conservative in the contest. The top two candidates will advance to a runoff next month if no one wins a majority of the vote Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach of them claim that they\u2019re ahead in the polls, and guess what that means?\u201d said Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana). \u201cNobody knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2871bdfa92648eca1838aefcd51a8858-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2871bdfa92648eca1838aefcd51a8858-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2871bdfa92648eca1838aefcd51a8858-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2871bdfa92648eca1838aefcd51a8858-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2871bdfa92648eca1838aefcd51a8858-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2871bdfa92648eca1838aefcd51a8858-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Rep. Julia Letlow (R-Louisiana) speaks to constituents on May 6 in Hammond, Louisiana. (Emily Kask\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Cassidy was one of seven Republican senators who joined Democrats in voting to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial. Trump was acquitted after 57 senators voted guilty, short of the two-thirds threshold needed to convict him. Just three of the Republicans who voted to convict remain in the Senate: Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), who fought off a primary challenge in 2022; Susan Collins (Maine); and Cassidy.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Collins or Murkowski, Cassidy has rarely bucked Trump since he returned to the White House. Cassidy even voted to confirm Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last year despite concerns about Kennedy\u2019s criticisms of vaccines \u2014 a deeply personal issue to the senator, a physician who has described watching patients die from diseases that vaccination can prevent.<\/p>\n<p>While Cassidy has avoided antagonizing Trump, he has not disavowed his vote to convict him. Instead, he is trying to persuade voters to overlook it, campaigning on his record delivering for one of the poorest states in the country. He has emphasized his <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.adimpact.com\/viewer\/97c3f448-a377-4bff-a8a2-09d5125af984\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/platform.adimpact.com\/viewer\/97c3f448-a377-4bff-a8a2-09d5125af984\">defense of the state\u2019s oil and gas industry<\/a> and his work to make sure a law Trump signed last year that eliminated taxes on tips applied to barbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want somebody who works well with President Trump, you vote for Bill Cassidy,\u201d Cassidy said in an interview in a Baton Rouge<b> <\/b>barber shop. \u201cHe may not like me, but he has signed into law four bills that I either wrote or negotiated in the last four months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Letlow, 45, is in some ways an unlikely candidate to topple Cassidy, 68. She won her House seat in a special election in 2021 after the death of<b> <\/b>her husband, Luke Letlow, who had been elected to the same seat but<b> <\/b>died days before he was set to be sworn in. While campaigning last week, she said she never imagined she would run for the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>As Cassidy has campaigned on his record, Letlow has sought to turn it against him. She has criticized the senator for voting for the bipartisan infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed in 2021 and that Cassidy has hailed as an accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s continued to partner and author bills with the Democrats, and that\u2019s just not something I would have done,\u201d Letlow said in an interview.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1aa192fec92bd8a2208885fea4bb6460-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1aa192fec92bd8a2208885fea4bb6460-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1aa192fec92bd8a2208885fea4bb6460-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1aa192fec92bd8a2208885fea4bb6460-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1aa192fec92bd8a2208885fea4bb6460-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1aa192fec92bd8a2208885fea4bb6460-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Voters listen to Letlow speak on May 6 in Hammond, Louisiana. (Emily Kask\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Cassidy, the chair of the Senate Health Committee, would be the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/alabama-defeat-leaves-trump-badly-weakened-isolated-amid-mounting-challenges\/2017\/09\/27\/5983f748-a39c-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html\" rel=\"\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/alabama-defeat-leaves-trump-badly-weakened-isolated-amid-mounting-challenges\/2017\/09\/27\/5983f748-a39c-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html\">sitting senator to lose a<\/a><a href=\"\" rel=\"\" title=\"\"> primary<\/a> in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>He has raised millions of dollars as he fights to hang on to his seat, allowing him to outspend his rivals. Cassidy\u2019s campaign and an allied super PAC, Louisiana Freedom Fund, have spent nearly $22 million on ads, according to AdImpact, which tracks campaign ad spending \u2014 more than what Letlow, Fleming and their allies have spent combined.<\/p>\n<p>Roger F. Villere Jr., a Republican National Committee member and former state party chairman who has not endorsed a candidate in the race, said Cassidy\u2019s financial advantage could help him survive despite the fallout from his vote to convict Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he has a shot, because he has so much money,\u201d Villere said. \u201cHe is constantly on TV, radio and social media, where everybody else is only on sporadically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy and his allies have suffused the airwaves with ads knocking Letlow for supporting diversity, equity and inclusion programs while working for the University of Louisiana at Monroe, among other criticisms.<\/p>\n<p>Letlow said she initially viewed such programs as \u201ca tool to encourage students to go achieve the American Dream,\u201d but she disavowed them after they were \u201chijacked by the radical left.\u201d She told supporters at a campaign event in Hammond last week that she had asked her mother to pray that the deluge of attack ads does not seep into the hearts and minds of voters.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=268\">Nationals\u2019 bats go quiet at tail end of series against Reds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Pollard, 69, a real estate agent in Baton Rouge, said he thought some of the attacks were over the top. He lives in Letlow\u2019s district and knew her late husband. He said he became disillusioned with Cassidy after his vote to convict Trump and his support for the infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupporting Julia was not a real stretch for us,\u201d Pollard said. \u201dWhen President Trump endorsed her, that was really one of the keys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other Republicans said they were troubled by Letlow\u2019s past support for DEI initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCassidy took himself out of the race by voting to impeach Trump,\u201d said Larry Rath, 69, a retired chemical engineer who lives not far from Cassidy in Baton Rouge. \u201cI consider him a traitor. And I don\u2019t really trust Letlow. So it\u2019s pretty much a process of elimination that then we would support Fleming.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ea2ea57f3d78cff3b41348546360084a-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ea2ea57f3d78cff3b41348546360084a-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ea2ea57f3d78cff3b41348546360084a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ea2ea57f3d78cff3b41348546360084a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ea2ea57f3d78cff3b41348546360084a-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ea2ea57f3d78cff3b41348546360084a-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Louisiana treasurer John Fleming speaks at a luncheon Tuesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Gerald Herbert\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Fleming, a former White House deputy chief of staff during Trump\u2019s first term, has run only $1.5 million in ads,<b> <\/b>according to AdImpact \u2014 a small fraction of what his rivals have spent. He has tried to make up for the disparity by arguing that his record in Congress was more conservative than Cassidy\u2019s or Letlow\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming, 74, said he tried to reach Trump to seek his endorsement but was blocked by the president\u2019s aides. He finally spoke with Trump in February after Trump endorsed Letlow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to him, \u2018Why don\u2019t you let me be your Plan B?\u2019\u201d Fleming said in an interview in Minden, his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming has become enough of a threat that a super PAC supporting Letlow is running ads attacking him. One of them <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.adimpact.com\/viewer\/49c0c9a9-f5f0-4dc1-be91-267193b1cdca\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/platform.adimpact.com\/viewer\/49c0c9a9-f5f0-4dc1-be91-267193b1cdca\">features an old clip of Fleming<\/a> saying: \u201cWe don\u2019t have enough illegal aliens. Why not provide a transportation program where they\u2019re bused across the border?\u201d (Fleming said that he misspoke while running for Congress in 2008 and that he meant to propose busing migrant farmworkers into the country.)<\/p>\n<p>The conservative radio host Moon Griffon last week faulted Letlow and Fleming for attacking each other instead of Cassidy during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=1321510869936263\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=1321510869936263\">a debate he moderated<\/a>. (Cassidy skipped the debate, perhaps deterred by Griffon\u2019s habit of referring to him as \u201cpsycho Bill.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy right here is the target, but he never looks like he\u2019s the target,\u201d Griffon said of Cassidy during the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Some Cassidy skeptics have come around.<\/p>\n<p>Lane Grigsby, an industrial construction contractor and Republican donor who supported Cassidy in the past, was unhappy with his impeachment trial vote, which he called \u201ca dumb political move.\u201d Grigsby said he initially supported another challenger, state Sen. Blake Miguez, because he thought Cassidy could not win.<\/p>\n<p>But Grigsby reevaluated the race after Letlow announced her campaign in January and Miguez dropped out \u2014 and he decided the senator could prevail after all. He said he thinks Letlow will finish in third, with Cassidy and Fleming advancing to a runoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that she\u2019s lost all her glamour to the heavy campaigning,\u201d Grigsby said.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Jones was also disappointed in Cassidy\u2019s vote to convict Trump. But Jones, 50, who works for his family\u2019s sign business in Denham Springs, said he plans to vote for Cassidy, citing his staff\u2019s efforts to help one of Jones\u2019s friends deal with the Department of Veterans Affairs as he was dying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe senator and I vehemently disagreed on that vote and a few others,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve also seen so much good that he\u2019s done behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy said he recognizes that some voters in his deeply conservative state will not support him because of his impeachment trial vote. But he said he is convinced there are enough Republicans like Jones for him to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to get hung up on five years ago, that\u2019s fine,\u201d Cassidy said in the interview, sitting in a barber\u2019s chair. \u201cI can\u2019t overcome that. But if you\u2019re saying: \u2018What\u2019s my present? What\u2019s my future? Who\u2019s been working for my state? Who has delivered for my state? Who makes it more likely that my family prospers here safely?\u2019 Then you\u2019re going to vote Bill Cassidy.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=265\">When Trump met Xi as peers<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana faces two challengers \u2014 one endorsed by the president \u2014 in Saturday\u2019s primary, five years after voting to convict Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A GOP senator defied Trump on impeachment, and voters haven\u2019t forgotten - Moving Insider USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=277\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A GOP senator defied Trump on impeachment, and voters haven\u2019t forgotten - Moving Insider USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sen. 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