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.