{"id":93397,"date":"2026-05-18T19:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sen-bill-cassidy-when-you-lose-you-dont-claim-the-election-was-stolen\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:42:52","slug":"sen-bill-cassidy-when-you-lose-you-dont-claim-the-election-was-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/sen-bill-cassidy-when-you-lose-you-dont-claim-the-election-was-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Bill Cassidy: When You Lose, &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Claim The Election Was Stolen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Senator Bill Cassidy was knocked out of his Republican primary in Louisiana after the president supported a challenger, still upset that he voted to convict in his second impeachment. Cassidy took one last shot at Trump in his concession speech:   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SEN. BILL CASSIDY: I&#8217;ve been able to participate in democracy. And when you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn&#8217;t turn out the way you want it to. But you don&#8217;t pout. You don&#8217;t whine. You don&#8217;t claim the election was stolen. You don&#8217;t find a reason why. You don&#8217;t manufacture some excuse.  You thank the voters for the privilege of representing the state or the country for as long as you&#8217;ve had that privilege. And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/18\/cassidy_when_you_lose_you_dont_claim_the_election_was_stolen.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Bill Cassidy was knocked out of his Republican primary in Louisiana after the president supported a challenger, still upset that he voted to convict in his second impeachment. Cassidy took one last shot at Trump in his concession speech: SEN. BILL CASSIDY: I&#8217;ve been able to participate in democracy. And when you participate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[334,21625,2002,322,48,2529,12844,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}