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"I like being in the United States Senate. I will not be a governor candidate in 2019. "The Senate is" the place where I think I can do the most good. "
" I hope that someone is running for the governorship that understands that the Louisiana government does not have to be a big, slow, stupid, useless, sometimes corrupt, spend money as if it was a water-gap, anti-taxpayer, a top-down institution. "
Kennedy exchanged his popular quotes with reporters and attacked Louisiana Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards for mismanaging the state in recent weeks," he said in an interview last week that if he ran, he would win because "the governor." Edwards took my country in the wrong direction. "
Edwards dismissed the criticism after Kennedy 's announcement, stating, "For Senator Kennedy, it was never about the people of Louisiana, it was about focusing on the people of Louisiana. Beware of himself. "
Yet many Republicans thought that Kennedy would opt for the governorship race since he had touted polls showing that he would win. Kennedy said last week that he was "really ripped" while he was anxious. on the decision.
But, as Kennedy deliberated, Representative Ralph Abraham (R-La.) Expressed his interest and raised the prospect of stiff competition between the two legislators of the GOP. At present, Abraham could be in command – two years with Bel Edwards next year.
