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Trump, however, remains committed to Higgins, who has been highly supportive of the president's [[MAGA]] agenda. Higgins said that he is confident he can defeat Guillory or other opponents seeking the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_b320e976-74e5-11e8-9f51-f75c8096273c.html|title=Trump endorses Higgins after Giuliani backs opponent his girlfriend works for|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=June 20, 2018|accessdate=June 22, 2018}}</ref>
Trump, however, remains committed to Higgins, who has been highly supportive of the president's [[MAGA]] agenda. Higgins said that he is confident he can defeat Guillory or other opponents seeking the position.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_b320e976-74e5-11e8-9f51-f75c8096273c.html|title=Trump endorses Higgins after Giuliani backs opponent his girlfriend works for|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=June 20, 2018|accessdate=June 22, 2018}}</ref>
In addition to Joshua Guillory, Higgins faces two Democratic challengers in the November 6 nonpartisan blanket primary for his second term in Congress. Rob Anderson of DeQuincy in Calcasieu Parish, a freelance author, claims that Higgins "crossed the line" in a video about the [[Holocaust]] filmed in a gas chamber at the [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp in [[Nazi]]-occupied [[Poland]]. Former U.S. Magistrate Mildred Ellen "Mimi" Methvin (October 24, 1952), ridicules Higgins as "less Cajun John Wayne and more Cajun Barney Fife," a reference to the 1960-1968 [[CBS]] [[television]] series, ''The Andy Griffith Show''. Methvin argues that Higgins casts votes for the Trump agenda that are against the interests of hard-pressed constituents in the district.<ref>{{cite web|url=
In addition to Joshua Guillory, Higgins faces two Democratic challengers in the November 6 nonpartisan blanket primary for his second term in Congress. Rob Anderson of DeQuincy in Calcasieu Parish, a freelance author, claims that Higgins "crossed the line" in a video about the [[Holocaust]] filmed in a gas chamber at the [[Auschwitz]] concentration camp in [[Nazi]]-occupied [[Poland]]. Former U.S. Magistrate Mildred Ellen "Mimi" Methvin (October 24, 1952), ridicules Higgins as "less Cajun John Wayne and more Cajun Barney Fife," a reference to the 1960-1968 [[CBS]] [[television]] series, ''The Andy Griffith Show''. Methvin, who carries the official endorsement of the Louisiana Democratic Executive Committee,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2018/08/20/see-who-la-democrats-pinned-their-hopes-loosen-gop-grip/1041200002/|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|date=August 20, 2018|title=See who Louisiana Democrats pinned their hopes on|accessdate=August 21, 2018}}</ref> argues that Higgins casts votes for the Trump agenda that are in conflict with the interests of hard-pressed constituents in the district.<ref>{{cite web|url=
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_8ad49a60-8a8b-11e8-8c46-2f2cfc5d085d.html|title=Candidates for Louisiana Secretary of State, Congress begin to qualify for fall elections|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=July 18, 2018|author=Mark Ballard}}</ref> Methvin is a daughter of the late [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] attorney [[DeWitt T. Methvin, Jr.]]; her paternal grandmother, Myrtis Lucille Gregory Methvin (1895-1977), was the first woman [[mayor]] in Louisiana in rural Castor in Bienville Parish; her maternal grandfather, William Peyton Cunningham, Sr. (1901-1971), represented Natchitoches Parish in the state House of Representatives from 1932 to 1940.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/elections/article_8ad49a60-8a8b-11e8-8c46-2f2cfc5d085d.html|title=Candidates for Louisiana Secretary of State, Congress begin to qualify for fall elections|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=July 18, 2018|author=Mark Ballard}}</ref> Methvin is a daughter of the late [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] attorney [[DeWitt T. Methvin, Jr.]]; her paternal grandmother, Myrtis Lucille Gregory Methvin (1895-1977), was the first woman [[mayor]] in Louisiana in rural Castor in Bienville Parish; her maternal grandfather, William Peyton Cunningham, Sr. (1901-1971), represented Natchitoches Parish in the state House of Representatives from 1932 to 1940.