{"id":36396,"date":"2021-04-26T15:14:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=36396"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T15:14:30","slug":"troy-carter-wins-louisianas-2nd-congressional-district-seat-in-special-election-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=36396","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Troy Carter wins Louisiana&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District seat in special election runoff&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/politics\/elections\/article_adfe1c50-a527-11eb-8407-bb5d7601ace2.html\" target=\"_blank\">NOLA.com<\/a>: &#8220;Troy Carter fulfilled a long-held ambition Saturday as voters in the 2nd Congressional District elected him to the U.S. House of Representatives, triumphing over Karen Carter Peterson after a bruising campaign between two Democratic state senators from New Orleans who agreed on issues more often than not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carter won the race with 55% of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Louisiana Secretary of State. He notched 48,511 votes to Peterson&#8217;s 39,295 in the runoff that saw just 16.6% of voters turn out to the polls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I will wake up every day with you on my mind,&#8221; Carter told a jubilant crowd at the Sugar Mill event site in New Orleans just after 10 p.m. &#8220;Now I want to go to Washington to be your voice.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOLA.com: &#8220;Troy Carter fulfilled a long-held ambition Saturday as voters in the 2nd Congressional District elected him to the U.S. House of Representatives, triumphing over Karen Carter Peterson after a bruising campaign between two Democratic state senators from New Orleans who agreed on issues more often than not. Carter won the race with 55% of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36405,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36396\/revisions\/36405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}