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With a November runoff expected, some context for this weekend’s jungle primary.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE On Saturday, Louisiana voters will go to the polls to begin selecting a replacement for term-limited Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA). In the all-party primary, state Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) has been the frontrunner for much of the campaign and will likely advance to a runoff. The state Democratic establishment has thrown its weight behind former state Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson, who will probably join Landry in a runoff. Despite Edwards’s success in recent gubernatorial elections, many of the dynamics that favored him in 2015 and 2019 are now absent. The Crystal Ball rates the race as Likely Republican.
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Louisiana legislators want to revisit a Medicaid technology contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars after hearing complaints from one company not selected to do the work.