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Steve Scalise speaks during a rally to support Donald Trump for the former president's campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris for president at the Abita Quail Farm in Abita Springs, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (Staff photo by Scott Threlkeld, The Times-Picayune) Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Republican U.
S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, as expected, romped to an easy reelection for a ninth term representing the suburbs of New Orleans Tuesday night. WWL-TV and WDSU called the races for Scalise less than 30 minutes after the polls closed Tuesday night.
Click here to see the live results tracker for local races and the presidential race The 59-year-old from Jefferson defeated two Republicans, a Democrat, and a challenger without party affiliation. Only Mel Manuel, a Democrat from Madisonville, raised money and filed a financial disclosure with the U.S.
House clerk. The other three challengers — Republicans Randall Arrington of Ponchatoula and Ross Shales of New Orleans, along with Frankie Hyers, who's not party affiliated — campaigned primarily via posts on X and Facebook. Scalise spent much of this election cycle campaigning for Republican incumbents and candidates around the country with the aim of maintaining a GOP majority in the House and control of the legislative agenda.
Scalise is the second highest ranking leader in the House, behind only Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from the northwest Louisiana town of Benton. It is the first time the top two leaders of the House have been chosen from the same state’s congressional delegation. He was first elected to the U.
S. House as a state senator from Jefferson Parish in May 2008 to fill out the term of Bobby Jindal, who had been elected governor. Scalise won without a runoff in the nine reelection bids since – usually with more than 70% of the ballots cast.
The dean of Louisiana’s congressional delegation, Scalise has been in House GOP leadership for the past decade. House Republicans are scheduled to meet next week to decide who will lead their party in the lower chamber for the next two years. The 1st District hasn’t elected a Democrat since Richard Tonry, of Arabi, in 1976.
Registered White voters make up 79% of the 1st District's electorate. About 9% of the district's voters live in New Orleans, mostly uptown. Two-thirds live in Jefferson and St.
Tammany parishes..
