Looking very good How John Bel Edwards won the Louisiana Governor's race Author: Chris McCrory Published: 1:41 PM CST November 17, 2019 "John Bel Edwards won with African American votes and African American turnout," political analyst Ron Faucheux said. "The 51% that Republicans got combined in the primary fell to 49% in the runoff, and that was largely due to increased African American turnout." Edwards spent much of his time in the closing days of the race in predominantly-black areas, trying to bring more black voters to the polls. During the last week of the campaign, Mayor LaToya Cantrell stumped for the incumbent governor. "This race really proved to be rural vs. urban, and Governor Edwards really performed so well in all of the urban areas," said pollster and analyst Greg Rigamer. The strategy worked overwhelmingly. By the time final results came in Saturday night, Edwards had secured about 99% of the African American vote, according to WWL-TV's election analysis By 9:45 p.m., WWL-TV called the election for Edwards because 93% of returns had come in, and the majority outstanding were from predominantly black districts, which had broken universally for the Democrat."
This is not a man confident in re election https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...othing-to-help-republicans-in-november-273612 Trump attacks Fox News for ‘doing nothing to help Republicans, and me,’ get reelected It was the president’s second Twitter tirade this week against a network that has generally treated him favorably. By MYAH WARD 05/21/2020 03:52 PM EDT President Donald Trump launched a Twitter tirade against Fox News on Thursday — the second one this week — accusing the network of “doing nothing to help Republicans” and himself get reelected in November. The president has been quick to attack the network, especially after host Neil Cavuto criticized the president on Monday for saying he was taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, despite health experts’ warnings. Trump on Thursday listed Cavuto along with other hosts and contributors he is disgruntled with, calling them “garbage” and adding that Fox News used to be “great.” “Many will disagree, but @FoxNews is doing nothing to help Republicans, and me, get re-elected on November 3rd,” the president tweeted. “Sure, there are some truly GREAT people on Fox, but you also have some real ‘garbage’ littered all over the network, people like Dummy Juan Williams, Schumerite Chris…Hahn, Richard Goodstein, Donna Brazile, Niel Cavuto, and many others.” He continued: “They repeat the worst of the Democrat speaking points, and lies. All of the good is totally nullified, and more. Net Result = BAD! CNN & MSDNC are all in for the Do Nothing Democrats! Fox WAS Great!” Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s remarks. In a Fox News poll released on Thursday evening, 48 percent of voters said they would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, if the election were held now, while 40 percent of voters said they would vote for Trump. Biden and Trump were tied at 42 percent in last month‘s Fox News poll. Trump’s relationship with the conservative network, which has generally covered him favorably, has been rocky in recent months. The president, who frequently criticizes the media, attacked Fox News last month and said it was being fed “Democrat talking points.” “The people who are watching @FoxNews, in record numbers (thank you President Trump), are angry. They want an alternative now. So do I!” Trump tweeted on April 26. After lashing out at Cavuto earlier this week, calling him an “idiot,” “foolish,” “gullible” and “an asshole,” the president swung at the network, saying in a tweet that Fox News is “no longer the same.” “We miss the great Roger Ailes,” the president wrote of the onetime head of the network who resigned in 2016 after multiple accusations of sexual assault. Ailes, who died in 2017, had advised Trump on debate preparation during the 2016 election. “You have more anti-Trump people, by far, than ever before,” the tweet said. “Looking for a new outlet!”
Billionaire Mark Cuban knocked President Trump during a combative Fox News interview on Wednesday, saying the president regularly "plays the victim card" by blaming Democrats and the media. “He’s the most powerful man in the world and he always plays the victim card. 'The Dems are out to get me, the media is out to get me.’ You’ve got to be the leader, you’ve got to be the strongest man in the game,” the Dallas Mavericks owner said while speaking with Sean Hannity. The Fox News host argued that the Obama administration illicitly spied on the Trump transition team, a reference to the criminal investigation and subsequent charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who admitted in court that he lied to the FBI about his conversations with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's then-ambassador to the U.S., during the transition period between the 2016 election and Trump's inauguration. He later withdrew his guilty plea. "Mark, Mark, they spied on the guy," Hannity said. "They spied on a candidate whose transition team ... they spied on his presidency. Those are [Attorney General] Bill Barr's words, not Sean Hannity." "Who cares?" Cuban shot back. "He's the most powerful man in the world. Be powerful, be a leader." "He's supposed to be the world's best counterpunch. He hasn't been able to knock anybody out. He just plays the victim," Cuban added. Trump and his allies have long claimed that top government officials cut corners to seek the wiretap on a Trump campaign aide during the 2016 election out of political bias. Cuban, a frequent critic of the president, also argued that Trump no longer seeks out qualified officials for his administration and instead relies on loyalty from political allies. FBI director stuck in the middle with 'Obamagate' Trump complains Fox News is 'doing nothing to help' him get reelected "I think that Donald doesn’t put the best people in place any longer. He did at the beginning and I was proud of him at the beginning, but now he just wants people who are loyal to him. That’s a problem and it’s created more problems in this pandemic," he said. Cuban, who said in 2016 that he would make a better president than the former reality TV show host, has said in recent weeks that a White House bid is "highly unlikely" in his future but that he has not ruled it out. “It was closed, but we have such crazy times and I’ve been getting so many requests that I at least want to keep the door open. But it’s still highly unlikely,” Cuban told Hill.TV's "Rising" earlier this month. “There would have to be something more than the pandemic.”