A Trump-backed candidate in a deep red district for the US House of Representatives may not have disclosed a part of his past to top Republicans.
Blake Miguez, a candidate for the US House of Representatives, was endorsed by President Trump for Louisiana’s Fifth Congressional District on February 4th.
That endorsement, however, seems to have gone to a candidate who was not fully vetted by Trump’s team – a pattern that’s coming back to bite the White House.
Trump’s endorsed candidate in the race against incumbent Republican Thomas Massie in Kentucky appears to have switched his party registration from Republican after Trump’s 2016 presidential nomination, and another Trump-backed pick in the race to succeed Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia had financial ties to anti-gun and Democrat groups and figures, as the Daily Mail exclusively reported.
A new report from The Atlantic alleges that before Miguez’s run for the US Senate last year, a bombshell from his past resurfaced, one that was not on the radar of Trump’s political team.
In a 2007 police report obtained by The Atlantic, a former girlfriend accused Miguez of rape and a pattern of abusive behavior.
Miguez has vehemently denied ‘the categorically false allegations.’
A Thursday report from a local outlet in Louisiana includes assertions from family members of the woman defending Miguez, including a line from the woman’s mother describing Miguez as a ‘good guy’.
Louisiana Candidate for U.S. House, Blake Miguez
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Women’s History Month event at the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 12 March 2026
The White House did not respond to a request for comment about Miguez and its vetting process.
The Atlantic describes in their article that in the police report, Miguez’s ex alleged that he locked her in bedrooms, took away her keys, and physically held her down.
The Miguez campaign strongly denied the allegations to the publication.
According to the report that The Atlantic reviewed, the woman told police that Miguez had sex with her even after she told him no. She said she fled the home, but that he followed her. Terrified, she hid behind a car near a convenience store while waiting for a friend to arrive, then called 911.
Miguez was not charged with a crime in relation to the report.
Police took the woman to a hospital for a rape-kit examination, the report says. Miguez, who was 25 at the time, was detained and questioned by officers.
But after the woman, then 22, later told a detective she did not want to press charges, the case did not move forward. In a voluntary statement to police, she wrote: ‘I called 911 cause I honestly was/am scared!’
Other reporting from the Washington Reporter’s Matt Foldi revealed that the same woman appears to have made similar accusations against other past romantic interests, not just Miguez.
The Daily Mail previously exclusively reported that Miguez was accused by a hunting guide of shooting a dog on a Louisiana hunt.
Miguez claimed last summer that the story is a ‘misdirection,’ but did not respond to follow-up questions on the version of the events shared with the Daily Mail at the time.
Miguez has long been known as an active member of the pro-gun community and is a championship-winning shooter.
He appeared on seasons of the History Channel’s TV series Top Shot in 2010 and 2013.
He was running for the US Senate against incumbent Senator Bill Cassidy until Trump endorsed Congresswoman Julia Letlow for Senate.
Miguez, who does not live in the 5th district, is running in a GOP primary field of six other candidates, including two fellow state legislators, Senator Rick Edmonds of Baton Rouge, and Representative Mike Echols of Monroe.
The primary is May 16.
