{"id":89490,"date":"2026-05-17T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/gop-senator-targeted-by-trump-loses-seat-hear-his-response\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:43:38","slug":"gop-senator-targeted-by-trump-loses-seat-hear-his-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/gop-senator-targeted-by-trump-loses-seat-hear-his-response\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP senator targeted by Trump loses seat. Hear his response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, has lost his bid for a third term in a remarkable defeat, after two <!--more--> primary challengers \u2014 including one backed by President Donald Trump \u2014 finished ahead of him in Saturday\u2019s primary and headed to a runoff for his seat. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Julia Letlow, who won Trump\u2019s endorsement, and a second opponent, Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, will advance to the June 27 runoff, CNN\u2019s Decision Desk projects. <\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Manu Raju discusses the result with his Inside politics panel of political reporters. Also, CNN\u2019s Dana Bash examines the trend of Congressional Republicans losing their seats after opposing Trump.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Sen. Bill Cassidy speaks out after losing the Louisiana primary election<br \/>\n1:37 Trump posts social media message celebrating Cassidy\u2019s loss<br \/>\n4:55 Will Cassidy be a thorn in Trump administration\u2019s side until he leaves office next year?<br \/>\n7:21 Former Trump aide Sean Spicer reacts to Cassidy being defeated <\/p>\n<p>Watch more CNN here: <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#BillCassidy #Trump #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, has lost his bid for a third term in a remarkable defeat, after two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}