{"id":11370,"date":"2025-07-16T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cassidy-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-challengers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:19:07","slug":"cassidy-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-challengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cassidy-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-challengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy holds cash advantage over GOP challengers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Embattled Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy maintains a significant cash advantage over his primary challengers as the GOP\u2019s MAGA wing attempts to unseat him over his vote in President Donald Trump\u2019s 2021 impeachment trial.<\/p>\n

Cassidy raised $1.6 million in the second quarter, significantly more than donors gave his two self-funding challengers, according to campaign finance reports filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission. Cassidy has been a top target of Trump supporters since he voted to convict the president in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. That impeachment vote enraged many Louisiana Republicans who viewed it as a betrayal to Trump, and has inspired a deep field of candidates attempting to oust him.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Blake Miguez \u2014 who declared that \u201cCassidy sucks\u201d in his campaign announcement<\/a> \u2014 raised $800,000 and loaned himself an additional $1 million. The other major candidate, state treasurer John Fleming, raised $121,000 and loaned his campaign $2 million. That loan effectively pads his overall totals without bringing in more money: Fleming first loaned his campaign $2 million at the start of the year, and then last quarter he paid it back while issuing a new one.<\/p>\n

Cassidy ended the quarter with $8.7 million cash on hand. Miguez has $1.7 million in cash on hand while Fleming has $2.1 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Embattled Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy maintains a significant cash advantage over his primary challengers as the GOP\u2019s MAGA wing attempts to unseat him over his vote in President Donald Trump\u2019s 2021 impeachment trial. Cassidy raised $1.6 million in the second quarter, significantly more than donors gave his two self-funding challengers, according to campaign finance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}