Mitt Romney Mourns RINO Senator Losing Primary
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RINO Bill Cassidy lost the Republican primary in Louisiana on Saturday.
Cassidy voted to convict Trump on impeachment charges in 2021.
Cassidy became the first previously elected Senator to lose his primary since 2012.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) just lost his seat — a key victory for President Donald Trump’s revenge tour this cycle.
Rep. Julia Letlow, the Trump-backed candidate, and state Treasurer John Fleming advanced to a runoff in the Louisiana GOP Senate primary on Saturday, with Cassidy finishing in third place.
It’s a remarkable result: Cassidy is the first previously elected senator of either party to lose in a primary since 2012. The two-term senator and chair of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee failed to even make the runoff, finishing with roughly a quarter of the vote.
Both Letlow and Fleming benefited from MAGA voters’ frustrations with Cassidy for his 2021 vote to convict Trump on impeachment charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, and for his skepticism of Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary.
Mitt Romney wasn’t happy with Cassidy’s loss.
He said, “Bill Cassidy’s departure is a loss for the country.”
The Senate to now lose an exceptionally brilliant and creative mind, an MD who chairs healthcare, and a person of character. Bill Cassidy’s departure is a loss for the country.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) May 17, 2026
Trump celebrated his loss, calling him a “a terrible guy.”
Trump laid into Cassidy, and several other Republicans, in a series of social media posts over the weekend, calling him “a disloyal disaster” and “a terrible guy.”
“Bill Cassidy, after falsely using his ‘relationship’ with me during his political career, and winning Elections because of it, voted to impeach me on preposterous charges that were fake then, and now, are criminally insane,” Trump added.
Another loss for the RINOs and a win for MAGA!
