After lagging in polls, Republican U.S. Rep. John Fleming thinks he has found his path to the runoff in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race, positioning himself as the grown-up among the major GOP candidates.
As The Associated Press reports, Fleming’s latest statewide TV ad, released this week, attacks the two leading Republicans in the race, U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany and state Treasurer John Kennedy, as being engaged in a “junior high food fight.”
Fleming, a doctor in office since 2009, suggests his GOP competitors are trading jabs and accusations while Fleming is “fighting the real enemy,” President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Fleming’s campaign sees the attacks between Boustany and Kennedy as peeling support from both and giving Fleming an opportunity to overtake them in the Nov. 8 election to reach the December runoff.
