Troy Carter wins House special election in Louisiana David Weigel Louisiana state Sen. Troy Carter won a special election Saturday to replace White House adviser Cedric L. Richmond in Congress, defeating a challenger backed by much of the Democratic Party’s left and expanding the party’s narrow majority in the House. Carter held a steady lead as votes were counted in a runoff with state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, a former chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party. The Associated Press projected Carter as the victor less than three hours after polls closed. Carter will take office once the election is certified, giving Democrats 219 seats in the House, with three more Democratic vacancies to be filled by special elections this year.
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Left and moderate Democrats battle for House seat in Louisiana David Weigel
Louisiana voters on Saturday will pick a Democrat to fill the state’s 2nd Congressional District, after a special election fight revealed divisions between the party’s more liberal and moderate wings and ways those divisions could be exploited.
Two Black state senators are vying to replace Cedric L. Richmond, now a White House adviser. Richmond, who represented the district for a decade, endorsed state Sen. Troy Carter as his successor as he left office to join the Biden administration. A primary last month pushed Carter into a runoff with state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, who has tried to consolidate liberal votes by emphasizing her support for the Green New Deal.