Pretty interesting that Jeff Landry is dropping out of the Governor's race now after spending the past few years obviously laying the groundwork to run. He's also publicly prodded other potential Republican candidates to make up their dang minds so he could run with a clear field. Jeff also ran up a bunch of trial balloon issues to see if anything would get him some traction ahead of time. Maybe he wasn't satisfied with the way any of that played out. For example, Landry was among the very few high profile politicians to publicly oppose Amendment 2 this year. He can't have been happy with that result.
Anyway, from the looks of things, the door is wide open for John Kennedy now if he wants it. (he does) I keep hearing that even though David Vitter is out of public life he still does his fair share of mentoring behind the scenes. I wonder if he helped to broker this.
Also this means the Democrats have an opportunity to run a hard charging anti-Landry campaign for Attorney General if they can manage to field a candidate. Given the way they've more or less conceded the open seat races for Treasurer and Secretary of State recently, it's likely they aren't up for it, though.
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