re: Why did Rispone lose in 2019?

JBE as an incumbent had people giving him big money. Rispone had to spend his own.
He wasn’t a very good campaigner. He had to learn on the fly and he didn’t learn very fast.

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He was behind in the polls, went after Abraham with a bunch of lies

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Rispone beat Abraham with his first debate performance. Rispone was great from someone outside of politics and Abraham was as bland as toast. Plus Risponse came off as much more conservative in the debate compared to Abraham who pushed things like "tax-neutral" ideas instead of cutting taxes like Rispone wanted.

The first debate was on September 19th. Which is when Rispone first passed Abraham and never looked back.

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Because the LAGOP is completely and laughably inept. They basically let 2 republican candidates beat each other up, wouldn’t make any calls to help resolve anything and then Rispone overplayed his hand, attacking Abraham to try and get some traction. It worked and he became the nominee - but the Bible Belt, North Louisiana fricknuts were too sad to show up and vote. So Turtlehead walked in there and here we are.

Just in case you missed it, this time around the LAGOP ran out and endorsed Landry before the race even started, once again proving how worthless they are. So now you don’t even know who the best candidate could be.

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So they let two guys bash each other and that was wrong, and then they jumped in early to prevent what happened in the previous election and that was wrong??

Seems like you covered your bases pretty well.

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I didn’t really pay attention much at the time. Was he a rino or just lacked charisma? It amazes me republicans lose statewide in such a red state like louisiana.

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They don't. JBE was a perfect-storm fluke. The Republican wins every presidential election in Louisiana by 20%. 5/6 Representatives are Republican along with both Senators. Nearly supermajorities in both state houses.

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Louisiana isn’t a red state. It’s a pro-gun, anti-abortion blue state.

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This is such a dumb trope.

In Louisiana, you need a name everyone knows. Rispone was a new politician and nobody in North LA knew his name.

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Prevent what happened? They endorsed before the race even began.

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You can’t tell the party leaders to jump in and prevent candidates from campaigning against each other and criticize them for picking a side.

No, they shouldn’t have anointed Landry, but they weeded out a weak candidate in Abraham by letting the two Republicans go head to head. They should have done the same this cycle.

Butt hurt Ralph Abrams voters.

They gave us JBE for a second term.

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When half of your campaign about the governor of Louisiana is about a border wall in another state it's not hard to see why you're going to lose. He tried to ride Trump's coattails and lost.

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This isn’t why he lost. NELA Ralph Abraham supporters refused to vote for Rispone because Rispone attacked Abraham.

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Yeah this is just not true.

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Where are you from? I was born and raised in Shreveport and grew up in Monroe and I know tons of Abraham supporters who refused to vote for Rispone.

I grew up in Ascension but actually lived in Monroe at the time. I didn’t know a single person who did this. What’s even more crazy is that you think North LA even has that much of an impact on the election lol.

Accountability. The retards pushing for Rispone because “Arggg I’m just like Donald Trump” is why Rispone lost. Dude was a clown. Rispone wasn’t going to flip those conservative south LA JBE voters.