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AG Jeff Landry's campaign blames technical error after texts sent to thousands after hours

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On Thursday, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry's reelection campaign blamed a technical issue for text messages sent to thousands of mobile phones across the state in the early morning hours.

The text message were supposed to arrive between 1 pm and 7 pm on Wednesday, according to a campaign spokesperon.

The network used to send the text messages got jammed, leading to a blast of texts after the cutoff time.

About 15% of the numbers on the campaign's phone list received the delayed texts in the late night into the early morning hours, according to The Advocate.

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