BATON ROUGE, La. -- Republican Treasurer John Kennedy's only GOP opponent in the U.S. Senate race has dropped out.

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State Treasurer John Kennedy.

That means Kennedy can skip the September party primary election and immediately advance to the November general election against Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu.

A spokesman for the Secretary of State's Office says Jacques Boudreaux, a little-known Republican candidate for Senate, withdrew his name Tuesday.

Boudreaux is a self-employed landscape contractor who had never run for office before.

The general election is November 4.

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