Pro-Trump impeachment Republican Sen Bill Cassidy targeted for ouster by Freedom Caucus founding member [Video]

Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming announced a bid to unseat Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican who voted to convict following the House impeachment vote against former President Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Fleming, a former U.S. congressman, was one of the founders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, according to a press release about his Senate bid.

“Senator Cassidy has failed the people of Louisiana,” Fleming said, according to the press release. 

“I will fight to bring real, conservative solutions to the U.S. Senate, I will not cut-and-run on these conservative principles, and I will stand and work with President Trump like I have many times before,” he declared.

A Cassidy spokesman said in a statement to Fox News Digital, “This week, Senator Cassidy met with President Trump’s VA nominee, secured tax relief for the victims of natural disasters in Louisiana and elsewhere, passed bills to …