FILE – In this March 11, 2009, file photo Sen. David Vitter, R-La., speaks during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington. Vitter’s facing possibly his worst political nightmare, a surprise challenger with all the right conservative credentials and none of the baggage of the incumbent’s prostitution scandal. Chet Traylor, the first Republican elected to Louisiana’s Supreme Court since Reconstruction, made a last-minute decision to take on Vitter after a fresh scandal for the first-term lawmaker: An aide had remained on Vitter’s payroll after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a knife-wielding incident with an ex-girlfriend. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)

Traylor, a retired Louisiana Supreme Court justice, is essentially running on the same political platform as Vitter, basing his opposition purely on Vitter’s electability. Traylor says he’s worried Vitter – the center of a 2007 prostitution scandal and a recent incident concerning an aide convicted of attacking and threatening to kill his girlfriend – would make an easy target for his Democratic challenger during the general election.

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