Democratic State Senators Troy Carter and Karen Carter-Peterson vying in 2nd District race
♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedPolitics.com editor
NEW ORLEANS (CFP) — Voters in Louisiana’s 2nd U.S. House District will go to the polls Saturday to decide which of two Democratic state senators from New Orleans will be their next representative in Congress.
State Senators Troy Carter and Karen Carter-Peterson are competing in a runoff to replace Cedric Richmond, who resigned to take a job as the White House public engagement director in the Biden administration.
Polls for in-person voting open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Saturday.
State Senators Troy Carter and Karen Carter-Peterson
Carter, who has support from much of the Democratic establishment and major unions, led in the first round of voting in April, ahead of Carter-Peterson, who has support from the Congressional Progressive Caucus and from liberal grassroots group such as Democracy for America and Our Revolution, a group spun out of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Should she prevail on Saturday, Carter-Peterson would be the first black woman ever elected to Congress from the Pelican State.
The majority black 2nd District includes most of New Orleans and part of Baton Rouge, along with the River Parishes between the two cities.
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