Vitter’s Future on the Line as Louisiana Votes for Governor
If Vitter loses Saturday, it would raise questions about what’s next for his seat in the Senate.
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If Vitter loses Saturday, it would raise questions about what’s next for his seat in the Senate.
He won Fayette County (including Lexington) by 15 points, 55 percent to 40 percent, while Alison Lundergan Grimes won it by 23 points, 62 percent to 39 percent, in her narrow re-election victory.
Democrats might disagree, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks the GOP electoral wave in his home state Tuesday was about President Barack Obama.
And while no federal offices are on the table, results from these states will have implications for House and Senate contests in 2016.
The situation in Louisiana is complicated by the fact that Vitter is up for re-election this cycle.
If Vitter loses next month, he has yet to indicate whether he would seek re-election to the Senate when his seat is up in 2016.