when you look at pariirishes ann new orleans, the african-american vote heavily african-american cities started to increase in that area. perhaps donald trump s visits to louisiana may have impacted the vote in a way he didn t expect. edwards eluded to something like that in his victory speech. our shared left field for louisiana is always more important than the partisan differences that sometimes divide us. and as for the president, god bless his heart. reporter: bless his heart, never quite the good thing in the soum whth when you hear they that. john bel edwards was a popular
the first week of public hearings have been incredibly damaging. it s just the consistent story about what was going on on in the white house and this very clear picture about an effort to sway foreign policy for the purposes of helping the president s re-election bid. we are getting testimony from a number of people that keep confirming the story. so i don t think anything that is happening is going to undermine democratic support or cause some kind of political backlash against democrats from independent voters. this is an important part of the political story. it s allowing democrats to move forward on a pretty solid base, based on what they are revealing to the public. we have two major political parallel stories this weekend. both what has come out from the impeachment depositions and this this victory for the now re-elected governor, democrat john bel edwards in louisiana.
primaries. let s head to louisiana. cnn projects democratic governor john bell edwards has narrowly won the election beating out a republican businessman backed by the president. diane gallagher is in baton rouge, louisiana. good morning. what is the reaction there? reporter: good morning. here is the thing. john bell edwards, democratic governor in louisiana, re-elected and i m looking at two different things here. we spoke with voters yesterday. we started to notice this split. those who were trump voters who also were john bell edwards votes. i did ask a couple of people how they were okay with the fact that the president had had two rallies in just the past ten days at that time trying to get the vote out for eddie rispone yet still voting for the democrat. they said trump was wrong with louisiana. they still plan to vote for him in 2020 but he wasn t right in this case. also it s turn out.
going to give pete momentum far ahead to what further this week, we have a big democratic debate coming up. we do. so you think that what mayor pete does in iowa will bleed in other states? well, he has done terrific in fund-raising any way, both small dollar donor and traditional big donor and bundlers. he is the only one who is able to wok both sides of that street opinion sanders and warren and joe biden has not and no one else has. a poll like this makes his fund-raising even better and more robust, which gives him the ability to get to get organized, get delegates. i want to move on real quickly to the louisiana governor s race that we just heard diane gal lettne gallaghe