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Schroder easily won a full term as treasurer in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019. With 769,443 votes (60 percent), he prevailed over Democrat Derrick Edwards, his opponent from 2017. Edwards received 442,753 votes (35 percent), and the No Party candidate, Teresa Kenny, finished with 69,910 (5 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
Schroder easily won a full term as treasurer in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 12, 2019. With 769,443 votes (60 percent), he prevailed over Democrat Derrick Edwards, his opponent from 2017. Edwards received 442,753 votes (35 percent), and the No Party candidate, Teresa Kenny, finished with 69,910 (5 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 12, 2019.</ref>
===Governor Edwards sues Treasurer Schroder===
In February 2020, Governor John Bel Edwards sued Treasurer Schroder regarding approximately $25 million in abandoned and unclaimed property funds owed to individuals and not subject to inclusion in the budget. Edwards seeks to have the Louisiana 19th Judicial District Court to compel Schroder to turn over the funds so that Edwards may place them in the state budget. John L. "Jay" Dzardenne, Jr., Edwards' commissioner of administration and a former state lieutenant governor, said that "the treasurer's actions are not lawful and they’re usurping the role of the legislature. … The treasurer doesn’t have the authority to redirect that money to his own escrow account
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_156a0176-49b5-11ea-853a-1f43f1075148.html|title=Gov. John Bel Edwards sues state treasurer to force him to turn over millions in unclaimed property|author=Sam Karlin|date=February 7, 2020|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=February 10, 2020}}</ref>
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