Democrat Troy Carter wins New Orleans-based US House seat gazettextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Melinda Deslatte
FILE - In this Wednesday, March 3, 2021, file photo, State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson poses outsider her home in New Orleans. Peterson is running for Louisiana s 2nd Congressional District seat which was vacated by Cedric Richmond after he left to be part of President Joe Biden s administration. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File) April 24, 2021 - 9:47 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana voters will decide Saturday which Democratic state senator from New Orleans gets promoted to Congress, ending an acrimonious clash between two legislative colleagues who have both sought the U.S. House seat in previous elections.
Louisiana will fill congressional seat with Saturday runoff
MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press
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1of3FILE - In this Wednesday, March 3, 2021, file photo, State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson poses outsider her home in New Orleans. Peterson is running for Louisiana s 2nd Congressional District seat which was vacated by Cedric Richmond after he left to be part of President Joe Biden s administration. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)Chris Granger/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, file photo, State Sen. Troy Carter poses in his office in New Orleans, La. Carter is running for Louisiana s 2nd Congressional District seat which was vacated by Cedric Richmond after he left to be part of President Joe Biden s administration. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)Max Becherer/APShow MoreShow Less
Two Black Democrats vie for House seat vacated by Cedric L Richmond when he joined the Biden administration washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Left and moderate Democrats battle for House seat in Louisiana David Weigel
Louisiana voters on Saturday will pick a Democrat to fill the state’s 2nd Congressional District, after a special election fight revealed divisions between the party’s more liberal and moderate wings and ways those divisions could be exploited.
Two Black state senators are vying to replace Cedric L. Richmond, now a White House adviser. Richmond, who represented the district for a decade, endorsed state Sen. Troy Carter as his successor as he left office to join the Biden administration. A primary last month pushed Carter into a runoff with state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, who has tried to consolidate liberal votes by emphasizing her support for the Green New Deal.