Martin Longman

I get really irritated by a lot of the recent coverage of the U.S. Senate race down here because none of you actually covered what happened this year. We tried to get you all to cover what we were doing. We begged the press - the Louisiana political press - to cover the Democratic side this year and time and time again, y'all essentially said that it didn't matter because we weren't going to be competitive anyways. And now that we are, y'all are taking every opportunity to accept those national cable TV interviews to try to explain what's happening down here without having ever actually checked in with the folks on the ground who have been making this happen. This isn't a fluke. It didn't happen overnight. We're not simply riding a wave. We have been working our asses off all year - the candidates, the organizers, the volunteers, the individual donors, the party staff, the DPECs, the faith leaders, the civic groups - to make this possible. To diminish that work and the strategy that guided it to "Well, Jim, we're seeing this kind of thing happen everywhere" on CNN or Fox is insulting. This was EARNED. We didn't fall ass backwards into this. And I PRAY that when it's all said and done, no matter what happens tonight, the Louisiana political press and historians commit to actually telling the real story of the 2026 election here in Louisiana because it's worth telling and the people who shaped it are worth celebrating. Now, let's go bring this home. #GeauxVote