Politics

Early voting begins Tuesday, just two weeks before Election Day. Key races include all six congressional seats, a competitive state senate race in New Orleans and a U.S. Senate race featuring a number of challengers vying to replace incumbent Republican Senator John Kennedy. And there are eight proposed statewide amendments that voters will be able to weigh in on.

A Baton Rouge judge has denied Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s request to have the state’s abortion ban go into effect pending his appeal of last week’s loss in court, meaning that abortion will stay legal in Louisiana – for now.

The qualifying period for the Nov. 8 congressional and state elections concluded Friday at 4:30 p.m. See candidates who will be on your ballot this fall.

It’s election year across the country, and Louisiana has no shortage of candidates vying for seats.

Gary Chambers Jr., the progressive Baton Rouge activist who made waves in a 2021 congressional race, announced Tuesday that he is running to unseat U.S. Sen. John Kennedy in this fall’s open primary.

Though the announcement was made earlier Wednesday, Gov. John Bel Edwards said in a press conference later that afternoon that the president would visit Friday to assess the damage from the Category 4 storm, which made landfall Sunday. Details of the president’s trip to the Pelican State are sparse at this time.