The House voted to override Trump s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act the first of his presidency. The override will now be sent to the Senate.
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Dec 28, 2020 5:58 PM
A Legislative task force is studying whether Louisiana should move to a closed primary system and will submit its recommendations by the next regular session.
Political analyst Bernie Pinsonat said the current jungle primary system was implemented in 1975 to limit Democrat on Democrat attacks during statewide elections.
“Let’s fast forward to now where the Republicans beat each other up and John Bel Edwards sat there with no opposition, had a lot of money. When Vitter finally had made the runoff Republicans had destroyed each other,” said Pinsonat.
Under the jungle primary system candidates of all parties compete to head to a run-off. Under a closed primary candidates of the same party compete against each other for a spot in the general election, and no party/third party voters may not participate in the primary.
The House on Monday approved an increase in stimulus checks to $2,000 for most Americans as President Trump had requested, over the objections of 130 House Republicans who voted against the president.