'It's really crickets' from Louisiana Democrats in U.S. Senate midterm

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Qualifying to run in the closed primaries for next year's midterm elections begins in five months, and the contest is looking to be a one-sided affair.

"It's really crickets from the Democratic side," said Political analyst and publisher of lapoliticsweekly.com Jeremy Alford. "I don't think Democrats have ever been weaker than they are right now."

Alford says the Democrats who can raise the money and run a statewide campaign -- people like former Governor John Bel Edwards, or even former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu -- show no interest. And he says the state GOP may be the strongest it's ever been in Louisiana.

"The Republican Party, for the first time in our life times, is on the verge of having a plurality in voter registration roles," he said. "It's going to be incredibly difficult, I think, for [the Democrats] to field a marketable candidate to run against whoever emerges from that Republican primary."

The Republican side so far has State Treasurer John Fleming, Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta, and State Senator Blake Miguez vying to unseat incumbent Republican Bill Cassidy.

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