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|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=[[Greg Hilburn]]||accessdate=September 16, 2018}}</ref>

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In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019. Prator led a four-candidate field with 39,140 votes (65 percent). He defeated two Democrats, George Eric Hatfield, who polled 12,724 votes (21 percent), and the African-American, Hersy Jones, Jr., who drew 6,887 votes (11 percent). A No Party candidate, Glen Cornell, ran fourth with 1,523 votes (3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref> In the campaign, Hatfield (born January 28, 1972) has been questioned for living out-of-wedlock with Amy Seen so that he can sign up his children for [[Medicaid]] even though Hatfield is a high-earning [[business]]man.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://recallhatfield.com/f/why-should-eric-hatfield-and-his-baby-momma-get-a-free-ride|title=The Truth About Eric Hatfield in Unedited Public Records: Recall Hatfield|publisher=Recallhatfield.com|accessdate=August 9, 2019}}</ref>

In the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019. Prator led a four-candidate field with 39,140 votes (65 percent). He defeated two Democrats, George Eric Hatfield, who polled 12,724 votes (21 percent), and the African-American, Hersy Jones, Jr., who drew 6,887 votes (11 percent). A No Party candidate, Glen Cornell, ran fourth with 1,523 votes (3 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>  

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