Fleming for Louisiana, Inc.

That, of course, is, uh, US Rep. Julia Letlow.

She had the backing of Donald Trump and Jeff Landry and Sheepy Cassidy and also Treasurer John Fleming in the Republican primary this spring.

Um, as a general election candidate, she's been pretty quiet.

Um, we're not really seeing TV ads.

Wow

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the nasty comments made about John Fleming.

But-

... into the Freedom Caucus itself, and it's continued to evolve since then, just like the rest of the party, right? So when Trump came into power in 2016, sworn in in 2017, it was hard for them to stick to their principles of, say, limiting executive branch power when the president is kind of doing things you want.

One of these co-founders I talked to is a guy named John Fleming.

He's a former congressman from Louisiana.

He's now state treasurer there, and he founded the caucus with several others during his time in Congress.

They say the Freedom Caucus doesn't have an issue on things we always should have been caring about.

I'm paraphrasing, but he brought up the budget deficit specifically.

Matt Salmon, the co-founder who feels like they've become cheerleaders for Trump, he's also says, "I'd like to see them focus on the budget deficit." John Fleming, a man who was proud of being MAGA before MAGA in the Freedom Caucus, also called out the budget deficit.

And one of the things Fleming said is, "Whoever the next president is, they're going to be more status quo than the kind of maverick Donald Trump that we have," right? They're gonna be more business as usual, and he said he thinks that's a great time for the Freedom Caucus to exercise ideological leadership, basically.

Well, the fifth one is about to be officially open.

The president of that organization was the campaign manager for Dr. John Fleming, who I believe actually won his election.

And so that, that chapter's a little, um, tardy in opening, but it's gonna be dynamic.

And we have Northshore, we have Acadiana, we have Capital Region, and NOLA.

... is a perfect, perfect antidote to it.

Thank you.

And I, I was gonna interrupt you just because on that note, um, especially in regard, I mentioned Dr. John Fleming to the senatorial, um, primary that we had.

That, that situation was absolutely the, the, the way that the campaign was run on the other side, people are so disenchanted from having been snake bitten by that situation-