“I would usually vote Republican, but I like (John Bel) Edwards. He's not like the nuts the Democrats have now.”
That's what J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor at Sabato's Crystal Ball, says his grandmother told him in October when she voted in the Louisiana governor's race. Grandma Coleman stuck with Gov. Edwards in Saturday's runoff election.
So did hundreds of thousands of suburbanites who continue to flee the regressive policies of Republicans and President Trump, who campaigned in Louisiana three times for Edwards's challenger, businessman Eddie Rispone. Record-breaking numbers of black voters also delivered a win for Edwards across the state — and in New Orleans parish by over 90 percent.
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