| | Dwight won reelection in the primary held on October 12, 2019. He defeated another Republican, Jacob Lane Marceaux (born 1984). Dwight polled 9,466 votes (73 percent) to Marceaux's 3,555 (27 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref> | | Dwight won reelection in the primary held on October 12, 2019. He defeated another Republican, Jacob Lane Marceaux (born 1984). Dwight polled 9,466 votes (73 percent) to Marceaux's 3,555 (27 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref> |
| − | Dwight is less [[conservative]] than his House predecessor, Brett Geymann. On January 13, 2020, his first day as a state representative in his second term, Dwight was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], who voted for the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish, whose election as House [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers along with the two [[Independent]] legislators, and the Republican dissenters.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' January 23, 2020.</ref> | + | Dwight is less [[conservative]] than his House predecessor, Brett Geymann. On January 13, 2020, his first day as a state representative in his second term, Dwight was among twenty-three Republican lawmakers, known as the [[Louisiana Republican Fraud Squad|Fraud Squad]], who voted for the [[Moderate Republican]] [[Clay Schexnayder]] of Ascension Parish, whose election as House [[Speaker]] depended heavily on the votes of thirty-five Democratic lawmakers along with the two [[Independent]] legislators, and the Republican dissenters. Democratic [[Governor]] [[John Bel Edwards]] also made contacts for Schexnayder.<ref>''[[Moon Griffon|The Moon Griffon Show]],'' January 23, 2020.</ref> |