{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://abraham.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/la-gov-rep-ralph-abraham-r-will-run-governor", "LA-Gov: Rep. Ralph Abraham (R) will run for Governor", "2018-12-07", "2018", "2018-12", "Republican", "House", "LA", "Ralph Abraham", "A000374", "abraham.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "As expected, Rep. Ralph Abraham (R) has announced he will take on Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) next year. Abraham is a physician and veterinarian who has been a back-bench conservative in the House for two terms. He has represented a deep-red seat in the northeast part of the state, and is the biggest of several names who had been considering the race. Abraham's lane became a lot more open this week after the strongest potential GOP rival, Sen. John N. Kennedy (R), bowed out of the race. However, Abraham will not have the jungle primary to himself  State Treasurer John Schroder (R), State Sen. Sharon Hewitt (R), and (possibly self-funding) businessman Eddie Rispone (R) are also considering bids (or in Rispone's case already declared).\nIf Abraham wins, it will trigger a special election for LA-5, which he won in 2014 by ousting kissing congressman Vance McAllister (R). The seat is an R+15 seat covering much of the state's northeast, including Monroe, Alexandria, and a large amount of rural territory. The seat also contains a bizarrely-shaped (but culturally-similar) arm along the Missisippi border through the rural northern Florida Parishes.\nTo read the full story, click here.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://abraham.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/la-gov-rep-ralph-abraham-r-will-run-governor"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.1933382377028465, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}