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   BROUSSARD, La. − Republican Jeff Landry will be Louisiana's next   
   governor after a stunning victory in Saturday's primary election,   
   deepening the GOP stronghold in the state.   
      
      
   Landry, the state's attorney general and a Donald Trump disciple who   
   secured the former president's endorsement, has led the race from   
   the start, but few predicted he'd win the primary outright without   
   going to a runoff.   
      
   Landry swamped the crowded field, including second-place finisher   
   Shawn Wilson, the state's former transportation secretary, despite   
   Wilson having consolidated Democratic support.   
      
   He finished with 52% of the vote to avoid having to run in the Nov.   
   18 general election. Wilson was second with 26%. Nobody else got   
   more than 6%.   
      
   Wilson conceded the race from his election night event in New   
   Orleans, telling reporters there, "While we might not understand   
   everything that Jeff Landry wants to do as governor, I believe he   
   wants to try to do the right thing, and it's our job as Louisianans   
   to make that happen."   
      
   Landry will replace Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, who was term-   
   limited and couldn't run again after eight years in office.   
      
   Landry, the state's two-term attorney general, led the race wire to   
   wire after announcing his campaign last year and securing the early   
   endorsement of the Louisiana Republican Party, easily vanquishing a   
   handful of other GOP hopefuls who never really threatened to catch   
   him.   
      
   Wilson, who was Edwards' transportation secretary for most of his   
   two terms, had his former boss' backing, but it wasn't enough to   
   send him to a runoff.   
      
   Landry's victory seals a Republican monopoly in the state.   
      
   Edwards is the only statewide elected Democrat, and Republicans hold   
   a supermajority in the state House and Senate.   
      
   Louisiana's governor's race is one of only three in the nation this   
   year. The others are in Kentucky and Mississippi.   
      
   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/10/15/re   
   publican-jeff-landry-louisiana-gop/71194695007/   
      
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