Edwards served eight years in federal prison on corruption charges and briefly starred in a reality television series. Representative Bill Cassidy was the Republican incumbent, but he dropped out of the race to run for the Senate, leaving a free-for-all that attracted 12 candidates. Edwards, the 87-year-old former Democratic governor, and the Republican Garret Graves, the former head of the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, will face each other in a runoff in the Sixth Congressional District, a conservative southeastern area that includes the state’s capital, Baton Rouge.
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