You’ve likely seen this ad in the past day or so. It’s everywhere on the internet.

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— Scott McKay (@TheHayride) June 2, 2026

Let’s recap a couple of things we discussed in our last post about this dumb recall of Jeff Landry that the Left is trying to gin up (and not all that successfully, by the way).

First, no statewide official has ever been successfully recalled in Louisiana. And while Landry’s approval ratings might well be soft, he’s nowhere near as hated as lots of our past governors were. If they didn’t get recalled, Landry sure as hell isn’t going to be the first one.

And second, next year is Louisiana’s statewide election cycle, which includes the governor’s race. A successful recall of Landry, if the implausible happened and the two grifters running that recall managed to pull it off by the deadline in October, would make for a recall election… early next year.

There would be two gubernatorial elections in 2027 if this works. Two gubernatorial elections, when there’s an incumbent and especially an incumbent with more than $10 million in the bank, is effectively no gubernatorial election.

The grifters running this recall know it isn’t going to succeed. They’re doing it to collect contact information from gullible dunces that they will then sell to list brokers and data miners and monetize the 50,000 or 100,000 lines of information, or however many suckers they can corral, for – they hope – enough money that they won’t have to work a job for a while. They’re probably going to be disappointed in the results, but we’re not here to worry about their problems.

The point being that they aren’t helping their cause. They’re actually helping Landry’s cause.

We got a chuckle out of that ad, because the woman in the car singing Landry’s praises looks like Kamala Harris and we thought it was hilarious to stick that in the face of the Democrats screaming the loudest about the governor.

And it’s a halfway decent stab at getting his re-election message out, though ideally he’d have it better refined next year.

But none of that is what’s really important about the ad. What’s important is that Landry’s camp, sitting on the $11 or $12 million they’ve got to spend on his re-election, might well have recognized the opportunity the recall gives him.

I’m not a political consultant. If I was, though, and I was working for Landry, what I would say is “Let’s spend $3-5 million ‘fighting’ this recall. Because while some people might think that’s a sign of weakness, what really matters is that every other politician in the state will look at that money covering the airwaves, the internet, billboards around the state and whatever else and realize that running against Jeff will be more expensive than they could have ever dreamed.

“And more than that, there won’t be any money available to do it with, because most donors aren’t going to give against Jeff if they don’t think they can beat him.”

I can’t say that’s what this ad signifies. But if Landry drops a money bomb on the recall people and demoralizes them, it will greatly reduce the likelihood that anybody with a real chance to win will get into the race.

And you can’t beat somebody with nobody. There isn’t going to be some fairy tale oyster fisherman or 5th grade teacher running as a Democrat and knocking Landry out. There certainly isn’t going to be some Gary Chambers-style grifter running against him and winning. You’d need someone qualified, with real name ID and access to $15-20 million, to even make a start at him.

He now has the opportunity to break any chance of that happening. Our guess is that he’s doing just that. Look for a big PR campaign coming out of Landry’s camp touting things like reversing the John Bel Edwards outmigration trend, the most people ever employed in Louisiana, which happened in April, the industrial construction pipeline filling up, crime dropping all over the state and so on. When it’s done, he’s likely to be more popular than he is now and his re-election will be all but assured.

Because the anti-Jeff Landry crowd, particularly on the Left, will have spent its meager energies on a recall which only benefits the list brokers, data miners and the two grifters who got it started.