Sen. Bill Cassidy — the Louisiana Republican who voted to convict President Trump during the second impeachment trial in 2021 — just got annihilated in his own GOP primary, finishing third with a humiliating 24.6% of the vote. Not second. Third. The man couldn't even qualify for a runoff in the state he's supposed to represent.
Thoughts and prayers to everyone who voted to convict and thought we'd forget.
Trump-endorsed Rep. Julia Letlow dominated the field with 44.9%, while Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming came in second at 28.4%. The two will face off in a runoff on June 27, 2026. Cassidy? He'll be clearing out his desk and updating his LinkedIn, presumably under "Skills: Betrayal, Poor Judgment."
This is the first time an incumbent U.S. senator has lost a primary since 2012. Let that sink in. Cassidy didn't just lose — he made history by losing. That's a special kind of achievement.
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President Trump, never one to let a good political corpse go uneulogized, called Cassidy "a disloyal disaster and a terrible guy" and congratulated Letlow for beating "an incumbent senator by record-setting numbers." And he's right. Those numbers are record-setting — for Cassidy, in the worst possible direction.
Letlow, for her part, understood the assignment perfectly. "There is no greater endorsement than Trump's endorsement," she said, calling him "the best president the country has ever had." On Cassidy's impeachment vote, Letlow was blunt: "Louisiana was not pleased with that vote." That might be the understatement of the decade. Louisiana wasn't just displeased — Louisiana threw him out like last week's crawfish.
Here's the thing the Cassidys and Cheneys and Kinzingers of the world never seem to grasp: we remember. We remember every single vote. You don't get to stab the guy we elected in the back and then come home expecting a parade. You get 24.6% and a one-way ticket to political irrelevance.
As reported by 100percentfedup.com, this was a straight-up MAGA execution. Trump personally campaigned against Cassidy, spent big, and delivered exactly what he promised — total humiliation for a disloyal senator.
Five years ago, Cassidy cast what he thought was a brave, principled vote. Today, he's a cautionary tale. Every Republican who's even thinking about crossing Trump should print out those primary results and tape them to their bathroom mirror.
The scoreboard doesn't lie. Loyalty matters. Betrayal costs. And Bill Cassidy just paid in full.
