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The House: As 2020’s Final Contests Settle, Vacancies Arise A Commentary By J. Miles Coleman Thursday, February 11, 2021 KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — With the race for NY-22 settled, 2020’s House elections may finally be fully in the rearview mirror, though IA-2’s results will be reviewed by Congress. — Before this week, we rated two special elections in Louisiana as safe for either party; with a new vacancy in TX-6, we see an imminent special election there as Likely Republican. Sign up: Free daily newsletter Sign up! — Two more districts, NM-1 and OH-11, seem...

Weeks After Luke Letlow's Death, His Wife Julia Letlow Is the Frontrunner to Replace Him in Congress On 2/9/21 at 6:00 AM EST Julia Letlow has never run for political office, but she intimately knows what it's like to be on a successful Congressional campaign. She's now a frontrunner in the race to fill the seat that her husband, Luke Letlow, never got to occupy after his successful election last fall. Luke died of complications from COVID-19 just five days before he was to be sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol for Lousiana's 5th District. "You become a team, and you start to share the sam...

Dark money groups are shutting down now that the FEC can enforce the law again Matt Corley In late December last year, two entities known for their role as part of a dark money network responsible for tens of millions of dollars in anonymously-sourced election funds quietly filed paperwork in Ohio terminating their corporate existence. The dissolution of these dark money groups coincided with the imminent return of the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) ability to enforce campaign finance law after being unable to conduct official business during most of the 2020 election...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More than two dozen candidates vying to be Louisiana's newest...

Wife of Rep.-Elect on Running for Seat He Won: ‘He Would Be So Proud’ Republican congressional candidate Julia Letlow said she felt she should run for the seat that her late husband Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R-La.) won last year before dying from what was believed to be COVID-19-related complications. “I hear him very clearly in my head saying he would be so proud of me as I move forward,” Letlow said Friday on “Fox & Friends.” Letlow said she and her husband were a team and “have been in lockstep with each other” for eight years. She recounted how he would always share with he...