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Impeachment Takes Center Stage in Louisiana Governor Race | Breitbart

posted onOctober 1, 2019
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Article snippet: The incumbent Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards has not come out in opposition to what his party is doing nationally, but rather is brushing aside questions about impeachment, calling it a “distraction.” But his chief GOP rival Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-LA), who’s aiming to get into a November runoff with Edwards in October’s jungle primary, is hammering the Democrats and Edwards over their efforts to impeach Trump. “It’s insanity,” Abraham said in an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel this weekend. “I’m a medical doctor and I can tell you they’ve gone off the chart with lack of logic, lack of objective data, I mean they truly are going insane.” Edwards, who has tried to portray himself as a “moderate” Democrat who can work with Republicans and President Trump, downplayed his party’s efforts to wipe out Trump with impeachment in an interview with the Associated Press last week. Edwards said: But Edwards did not criticize his party for doing what they are doing, and did not say he disagreed with the Democrats moving forward with impeachment. Abraham, when asked to react to this weak statement from Edwards, ripped his Democrat opponent. “No he’s not going to do it [criticize Democrats’ impeachment inquiry of Trump]—he’s definitely in the same boat they are,” Abraham said. “He does have fundraisers with Gov. Northam in Virginia who wants to kill babies after they’ve been born. He does have those people Stacey Abrams and all com... Link to the full article to read more

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