{"id":5882,"date":"2023-10-15T06:16:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2023-10-15T06:16:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T10:16:52","slug":"republican-jeff-landry-wins-louisianas-governor-election-reclaims-office-for-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/republican-jeff-landry-wins-louisianas-governor-election-reclaims-office-for-gop\/5882\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Jeff Landry wins Louisiana\u2019s governor election, reclaims office for GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former president Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor\u2019s race, holding off a crowded field of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The win is considered as major win for the GOP as they have claimed back the governor\u2019s position after eight years. Landry will replace current Governor John Bel Edwards, who failed to seek reelection due to consecutive term limits. Edwards is the only Democrat gov. in the Deep South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s election says that our state is united,\u201d Landry stated during his victory speech. He added that the message from the people is loud and clear that they have been expecting more out of the government from here on out.<\/p>\n<p>Landry managed to bag more than half of the votes, thus avoiding an expected runoff under the state\u2019s \u201cjungle primary\u201d system. He described the elections as \u201chistoric\u201d while celebrating his win with supporters in Broussard, Louisiana. This is because the last time there wasn\u2019t a gubernational runoff in Louisiana was in 2011 and 2007, when Bobby Jindal, a Republican, won the state\u2019s top position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican backed by former president Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor\u2019s race, holding off\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1569,1570],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-jeff-landry","tag-louisiana"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}