US Midterms 2026
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Julia Letlow, a Republican who has represented Louisiana's 5th congressional district since 2021, defeated incumbent Bill Cassidy and won her party's 2026 U.S. Senate nomination.
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The new spending is the most significant outlay from Kennedy-aligned groups since they helped Rep. Julia Letlow defeat Sen. Bill Cassidy in a Louisiana Republican primary in May.
Voters who plan to vote by mail must request an absentee ballot by Oct. 30 at 4:30 p.m. The deadline does not apply to military and overseas voters.
DavisThere are 35 Senate seats up for grabs in the 2026 midterm elections.
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Davis of Louisiana released two new campaign ads on Wednesday ahead of the start of early voting.
DavisLouisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow mapped out an aggressive vision for the state’s economic future during a fireside chat at America’s LNG Summit, positioning Louisiana as the vital engine behind the…
Louisiana U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Davis, a Democrat, has launched a new TV ad attacking his Republican opponent U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow over controversial stock trades she made in 2024.
DavisLess than a month from now, Louisiana voters will elect one member to fill the seat of Bill Cassidy in the U.S. Senate.
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Born Julia Janelle Barnhill in Monroe, Louisiana, on March 16, 1981, Letlow is the middle child of an investment adviser and a former flight attendant.
After graduating from Ouachita Christian High School, she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in speech communications at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM), then completed a communications doctorate at the University of South Florida in 2012.
She held the post of director of education and patient safety at the Tulane University School of Medicine, became ULM's director of external affairs and strategic communications in 2018, and was a finalist for the ULM presidency in 2020.
Her husband, Luke Letlow, won the 5th congressional district seat in the 2020 elections and died of COVID-19 that December, before he could be sworn in.
Julia Letlow entered the special election for the vacancy in January 2021, gained Donald Trump's endorsement during the campaign, and won outright on March 20, 2021, taking more than 64% in the nonpartisan blanket primary.
She took the oath of office on April 14, 2021, the first Republican woman Louisiana voters sent to Congress. Voters reelected her outright in 2022 with 67% of the vote and in the November 5, 2024, primary with 62.9%.
In the House she has sat on the Appropriations Committee and the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and she wrote the Parents Bill of Rights (H.R. 5), which the House passed on March 24, 2023.
Trump endorsed Letlow on January 18, 2026, and two days later she announced a primary challenge to Bill Cassidy, the Republican incumbent, who had held the seat for two terms.
In the Republican primary on May 16, 2026, she led with 44.8%, ahead of state treasurer John Fleming (28.3%) and Cassidy (24.8%), eliminating the incumbent. She won the June 27 runoff against Fleming with 56.9% of the vote.
In the November 3 general election she faces Democrat Jamie Davis, a Tensas Parish police juror. The 2026 contest is Louisiana's first Senate race held with party primaries since 2010.
