Troy Carter wins Louisiana special election in blow to progressives

[George II]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/24/troy-carter-wins-louisiana-special-election-in-blow-to-progressives-484576

Carter, a Democratic state senator, overcame a candidate endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and backed by national liberal groups.

Progressives suffered a disappointing setback on Saturday, after their favored candidate lost to a more establishment-aligned opponent in a special congressional election in Louisiana.

State Sen. Troy Carter, who was backed by top leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus, beat state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson in a runoff to fill a vacant House seat that quickly turned into a turf war for sparring factions of the Democratic Party. He overcame more than a million dollars in outside spending backing Peterson to win, 56 percent to 44 percent, when The Associated Press called the race.

The district is majority Black and safe Democratic territory; it includes almost all of New Orleans and stretches north toward Baton Rouge. The former incumbent, Cedric Richmond, vacated the seat to join the Biden administration.

In one of his final acts as a member of Congress, Richmond backed Carter, who also nabbed endorsements from House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.). Peterson was backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), former Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams, EMILY’s List and activist Gary Chambers Jr., who came in third place in the March primary.

[hlthe2b]

1. Seems like a candidate supported by CBC, Clyburn, & Richmond in predominently black district winning

can't be such a bad thing, albeit his opponent seemed like a very bright candidate for the future...

Not sure, though that this is deserving of such a calamitous headline.

[msfiddlestix]

4. " Not sure, though that this is deserving of such a calamitous headline"

Exactly MY thoughts. Typical POLITICO headline. I thought for a minute a Proud Boy or a Qanon idiot won.

THAT would have been calamitous!

[True Blue American]

7. The only thing I see is that he believes

In working across the aisle. What is so bad about that?

We badly need people on both sides to work together.

Purity is a Republican trait, not Democratic.

[RegularJam]

2. Politics is local.

While external forces do play a role, from district to district the impact will be different.

[Lovie777]

3. Overall New Orleans and Baton Rouge are moderate to conservative districts . . .

My relatives voted for Troy Carter.

[True Blue American]

8. Thank them for me!

[Thrill]

5. Typical Politico Headline

They somehow find a negative in this. lol

[ck4829]

6. Ha, same here... "I'm pretty sure the source is going to be Politico" I said to myself

[Mad_Machine76]

10. Stirring the pot

[uponit7771]

13. +1, shit kicking ... that's all the got instead of focusing on the 1/6 terrorist attack

[Hortensis]

17. Yup. Sounds like the two candidates are a lot alike, in spite of

Peterson's attempt to differentiate by making herself seem more of a Prog and get that support. With a 21-year mainstream progressive Dem record in the state legislature to look at, it's believed she'd have aligned with our mainstream progressive caucus if she'd gone to congress, as Carter apparently will.

We don't know what promises she might have made to get the big-money Prog support, though. Whatever, local constituents made their choice.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. I am glad that a real democrat won

Link to tweet

[George II]

11. From what I've seen, Peterson ran a pretty dirty campaign against Carter. Here's an example:

Peterson's campaign took a Greater New Orleans Republicans PAC flyer and created a fake one, claiming that the GNOR PAC was endorsing Carter. The truth is that they did NOT endorse Carter. In fact they didn't participate in the runoff campaign at all - the PAC is no longer active at all! This is pretty dirty:

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Was she a Just Us Democrat?

I am not a fan of the Just Us Democrats

[George II]

16. Yes, they poured lots of money into the District for the election. Plus I got a number of emails...

...from JD candidates, elected officials, and JD itself asking for money for that campaign.

[Cha]

33. It figures.. so glad Karma got them!

[Demsrule86]

21. Me either.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. I am on the Just Us Democrats mailing list

Somedays I get three emails in one day all asking for money to fight evil corporate/regular democrats. I find these appeals to be both moronic and amusing. I am not a fan of this group which appears to have zero GOP seats flipped.

[Cha]

34. That's Not "justice" it's

gaslighting... they're not helping Democracy.. they're in to help their brand.. but they're not even doing that.

Dems should be working together to fight the ever looming fascism.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. These non-Democrats want to destroy the Democratic Party and make it into their own image

Just Us Democrats are not members of the Democratic Party nor do these non-democrats care about the Democratic party

[Cha]

36. Yeah, and I don't like

their "image".

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215371999#post11

[Demsrule86]

20. I am glad Carter won...scummy campaign literature you posted and against another Democrat...

We are lucky we still won with another Democrat running.

[betsuni]

23. Ugh.

[Cha]

25. shocking.

[Cha]

32. Didn't think they could win

without a fake flyer, eh?

That's disgusting.

[uponit7771]

12. The CBC is progressive, why is the OP title saying Carters win is a blow against progressives? tia

[George II]

18. Not all progressives are in the CBC, and not all members of the CBC are progressive....

Plus the headline may be in reference to those individuals and organizations who endorsed Peterson against Carter.

[uponit7771]

19. Goes without saying and CBC is still overall progressive so is Carter. He's not regressive and not

... a conservative asshole.

[Cha]

24. And, Rep James Clyburn & Former

Rep Richmond endorsed Troy Carter.. very Progressive.. they get things done.. Progress!

And, Good on Carter Overcoming.. ".. Over a $Million Outside $$$$$"!

[Cha]

15. Yay for Troy Carter Overcoming More than

a $Million Bucks from out side Money!

[JI7]

22. How is the congressional black caucus not progressive ?

[rogue emissary]

26. Great question to ask the Justice Democrats & also ask them why they targeted multiple CBC members?

[Sgent]

28. FYI

you might know, but for anyone else this was an open seat.

These candidates are very similar IMHO both in overall views and governing style, and the outside help / influence didn't help her.

[betsuni]

29. Justice Democrats call everyone "corporate Democrats" who cannot be progressive

because they are all bribed, including the congressional black caucus. It's nutty.

[betsuni]

27. "Progressive movement": anti-establishment with the bad establishment being the Democratic Party.

Us vs Them. Making Them, Democrats, not progressive. The enemy. Taking words and giving them new weird meanings.

[Bucky]

30. I like how they had to lend some bleed to the lede

Overblown accounts of political factionalism is about the only way you could spice up a story about an election in a solid Democratic district

[BradAllison]

38. They'll always be waiting for that Cori Bush shocker result

Which in of itself is still a bitter pill for some.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Um, He Won 56:44

Somehow I think the "progressives" were braced for defeat. He got 27% more votes than her, & they all get polling data.
I'm guessing this wasn't the devastating disappointment the headline suggests.