Republican Caleb Kleinpeter’s Win in Louisiana Could be National
Republican Caleb Kleinpeter’s recent victory in Louisiana’s 17th District State Senate Race against incumbent Democrat State Representative Jeremy Lacombe can become a model for future Louisiana and national State legislative races.
53% of the District’s voters are Democrat, and only 26% are Republican. Yet Kleinpeter received 50% of the total vote, and another conservative Republican, Kirk Rousett, received 8%. In a District where Democrat voters outnumber Republicans two to one, 58% of the vote went Republican. In Lacombe’s own home Parish of Point Coupee, 47% of the voters cast a ballot for a Republican. Contrast this with the 72% of the vote Lacombe won in Point Coupee against a Republican in his State House Race in 2019, before he had a record that could be effectively exposed. It is nothing short of stunning.
