{"id":11386,"date":"2025-07-16T19:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/super-pac-backing-bill-cassidy-to-reveal-2-5m-haul\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:17:03","slug":"super-pac-backing-bill-cassidy-to-reveal-2-5m-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/super-pac-backing-bill-cassidy-to-reveal-2-5m-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Super PAC backing Bill Cassidy to reveal $2.5M haul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, facing a MAGA revolt over his vote in President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment trial, is about to get a boost from a super PAC committed to the Republican’s reelection.<\/p>\n

Louisiana Freedom Fund is set to announce that it has $2.5 million in cash on hand to support Cassidy, according to a person granted anonymity to disclose the total ahead of a formal filing. Cassidy is up against multiple GOP challengers attacking his 2021 vote to convict Trump over his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.<\/p>\n

The infusion of outside funds comes after Cassidy\u2019s campaign revealed Tuesday it already holds a massive cash advantage<\/a> over his opponents. The four-term incumbent has $8.7 million banked, compared with State Sen. Blake Miguez\u2019s $1.7 million and state treasurer John Fleming\u2019s $2.1 million, per campaign finance reports<\/a> filed with the Federal Election Commission.<\/p>\n

Those reports also showed that Cassidy raised $1.6 million in the second quarter, significantly more than donors gave the other top candidates, who are running largely self-funded campaigns. Miguez raised $800,000 and loaned himself an additional $1 million, while Fleming raised $121,000 and loaned his campaign $2 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, facing a MAGA revolt over his vote in President Donald Trump\u2019s impeachment trial, is about to get a boost from a super PAC committed to the Republican’s reelection. Louisiana Freedom Fund is set to announce that it has $2.5 million in cash on hand to support Cassidy, according to a person […]<\/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-11386","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\/11386","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=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}