Gov. Landry calls out Sen. Cassidy and Treasurer Fleming on attack ads against Rep. Letlow

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Governor Jeff Landry accuses the two male Republican candidates in the U.S. Senate race as not being “southerly.” Landry, who is supporting Julia Letlow in the U.S. Senate Republican primary, says the attack ads the Congresswoman from Incumbent Billy Cassidy and State Treasurer John Fleming are crossing the line.

“It’s kind of interesting, because we’ve got two men and a woman in this race, and the two men are just beating the hell out of the woman. They’re certainly not being Southerly,” Landry noted.

Landry made the comments during an interview with Jim Engster on WRKF’s “Talk Louisiana.”

Letlow, who has the endorsement of President Trump, has called herself the true conservative in the race. Landry says the narratives that the other two candidates are using to describe Letlow are false.

“They’re trying to paint her as a liberal, trying to paint her as this or that. It’s really disingenuous,” Landry said.

The governor says he’s impressed Letlow continues to do well in the race, despite the negative ads against her.

“If you look at the amount of money that Bill Cassidy and his cronies have spent beating this poor woman up and where her numbers are, I don’t know if I could have withstood that, I’ve gotta tell ya,” Landry said.

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