Gret Stet Republicans had a close call in the 2026 senatorial election. Julia Letlow won by a mere 25K votes over Jamie Davis who was unknown at the beginning of the year. Letlow could be called a two-headed sycophant as she owes both President Pennywise and Governor Jeff Landry bigly.
The Louisiana GOP was overconfident in the general election. Why worry about a guy whose slogan was Vote for the Farmer? Letlow didn’t barnstorm the state with The Clownfish and the Insult Comedian only held a tele-rally for her during which he talked about himself. GOP cockiness turned a cake walk into a squeaker.
The next Gret Stetwide election is in 2027. The Clownfish is up for reelection. He won’t be asleep at the switch next year but his approval ratings are mediocre at best. The last two I saw were 39% and 43%. Not as bad as the Insult Comedian’s ratings but not good either.
A potential source of weakness are The Clownfish’s vanity projects AKA Landry’s vanities; Trump’s vanity projects were a factor in the blue tsunami, after all. The featured image is of Landry with his new pal Elon Musk. The Clownfish sold the Gret Stet’s soul in exchange for a Space X facility at Pecan Island in Vermillion Parish. I wish I could say it was a gone pecan but it *is* causing agita in Acadiana.
Landry can argue that the Musk deal has something in it for voters. That’s not the case with his other vanity projects: LSU football and Greenland. You may recall that The Clownfish was Trump’s envoy to Greenland, which is why I called him the Cajun Viking last year. Landry visited Greenland and was booed. That was all he seemed to accomplish, others negotiated the “deal” signed with Denmark.
The Clownfish was intimately involved in hiring sleazy LSU head football coach Lane Kiffin. It isn’t going well: the Tigers have already lost 3 SEC games. Many Louisianans are asking themselves why is the Governor, who is not an LSU alum, spending time on college football? He does it for the attention. That’s one way in which he’s like the Kaiser of Chaos. Trump, of course, would never be seen in jeans and cowboy boots. The Little Man thinks it makes him look manlier than his MAGA blue suit.
Jamie Davis is non-committal about running for Governor against Landry. I have been so intent on the national picture that I’m playing catchup on possible challengers. That’s where the Picayune’s Tyler Bridges and Sam Karlin come in handy:
The name that political insiders mention the most is state Sen. Jay Luneau of Alexandria, who is completing his third term. He acknowledged his interest.
So did Davante Lewis, a first-term member of the Public Service Commission whose district stretches from Baton Rouge to New Orleans; former state Sen. Gary Smith, who lives in St. Charles Parish and served 12 years representing the River Parishes; and Dustin Granger, a financial adviser in Lake Charles who has established a presence on social media after losing races for the state Senate and for state treasurer.”
I know a bit about Lewis and Granger but little about Luneau. One thing is certain: Anybody is better than Jeff Landry.
Any potential challenger to The Clownfish should run against Landry’s vanities. Democrats hate Elon Musk and the other vanity projects are peripheral to governing. Landry is likely to win but it would be fun to see Democrats light a bonfire of the vanities and hold his feet to the fire. Sorry for the cliche: sometimes I can’t help myself.
Speaking of agita in Acadiana, the last word goes to Sonny Landreth: