Louisiana Senate hopeful Chet Traylor is finally ready to start taking a few swings at incumbent David Vitter, just ahead of their August 28 primary.
Traylor, according to his campaign chief Roy Fletcher, will have at least $500,000 on hand by Sunday, when the current fundraising period ends.
But that leaves him precious little time to close an enormous gap in the polls. Traylor, a business-connected conservative and former Louisiana Supreme Court justice, entered the primary at the last possible moment, prompting speculation that Vitter may have a fight on his hands.
That was a month ago. Now the question is whether or not too much time lapsed while Traylor raised funds for him to get his name out, or even make a dent in Vitter’s electoral armor. Thus far, he’s mostly notorious for a report detailing how he broke up one wife’s previous marriage and, in the wake of his wife’s death, entered a romantic relationship with his soon-to-be-ex-daughter-in-law.
Nonetheless, Traylor still says his best hope is that Republicans worry that Vitter’s even-more-scandalous history will cost the GOP a Senate seat.
“I think they are very afraid that they’re going to have another Democratic vote in the Senate,” Traylor told the Times-Picayune.
