Yesterday the local elections were held in Louisiana, one of the southernmost states in the United States. A little surprisingly, the Democratic governor of the state, John Bel Edwards, was re-elected, who obtained 51.3 percent of the votes against 48.7 of his Republican challenger, the rich entrepreneur Eddie Respone.
The US newspapers are dealing extensively with Edwards' victory both because conservative candidates are usually very strong in Louisiana – in 2016 Trump exceeded Clinton by about 20 points – and because President Donald Trump was very involved in the electoral campaign in support of He replies, visiting Louisiana twice in the last two weeks.
"Louisiana has left a black eye for Trump," he titled Politic in the article in which he gives an account of Edwards' victory. It is the second time in a few weeks that Republicans lose the election of a governor in a southern state, where on paper they are much more popular than the Democrats: two weeks ago in Kentucky the outgoing governor Matt Bevin had been defeated by his Democratic challenger Andy Beshear.
Observers close to the Republicans point out that those in Louisiana and Kentucky were more difficult to win elections than the newspapers had believed – Edwards is a Democrat with conservative positions on abortion and weapons, while Bevin was one of the less popular governors of the United States – but the New York Times he maintains that Trump's explicit support for Rispone "motivated both his supporters and his critics".
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