Jamie Davis says national Democratic money could have changed Louisiana race

Jamie Davis says national Democratic money could have changed Louisiana race

Candidate cites funding gap, AI ad and name recognition after losing to Letlow

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Democrat Jamie Davis, who lost to Republican Rep. Julia Letlow by about 25,000 votes, or less than 2%, said money from the National Democratic Party would have “taken us over the top.” The national party did not put funds into his campaign.

Davis said that even Democrats told him early on, “You don’t have a snowball chance in hell of winning.” He described himself as a farmer who plants a seed every year to harvest it.

“I just didn’t know that the harvest would be just a little short,” Davis said.

National party funding

Asked whether the national Democratic Party’s money was a factor, Davis said the same would have been true if the party had invested in Louisiana as it did in Mississippi and Florida.

“That fertilizer would’ve been just the same if the National Democratic Party invested the same money in Louisiana that they did in Mississippi and in Florida, that $3 million that were injected into Angie’s and Scott’s races,” Davis said. “If they did it in Louisiana, it would’ve taken us over the top.”

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