Anti-Trump sentiment, ad blitz motivate Georgia voters

To see more, visit WABE-FM. Price was appointed by Trump in February to serve as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. "Vote for the Democratic Party", Jackson said in a radio ad he recorded with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

About 95 percent of Ossoff's fundraising has come from out-of-state, and as WABE's Johnny Kauffman reported, numerous volunteers coming to help in the campaign's final push are from out-of-state.

A Republican has represented the sixth district since 1979, and a victory for the 30-year-old Ossoff could represent the first tangible public rejection of Trump's presidency.

Ferguson and Robertson headed out to a neighborhood a few miles away to knock on doors in a subdivision where several Ossoff signs already dotted the well-manicured yards.

But among the group gathered in Sandy Springs on Saturday morning, it's a mix of young and old volunteers, a lot of them from this very district who, like Bruce Johnson, can't believe that this traditionally red area is even on the map with the potential to flip. Anyone sending a contribution would be rewarded with a "free "I support Donald Trump" bumper sticker", it said.

KAUFFMAN: The campaign is also bringing busloads of volunteers from the Washington D.C. area, MI and NY. A Republican there won a closer-than-expected victory against a little-known Democrat, but only after last-minute help from Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. "This is your election to win and send a strong message to Trump".

KAUFFMAN: Laura Phipps, another volunteer, brought her son along from North Carolina.

LAURA PHIPPS: It's much less frustrating when you're working, when you're doing something.

But Ossoff and his army of volunteers smell blood in the water and want to deliver a knock-out punch on Tuesday - something the Democratic candidate said would reverberate well beyond the Northern Atlanta suburbs. They hope to force a June runoff with the GOP's top candidate by keeping Ossoff below 50 percent of the vote.

Many of these wins have been credited to Build the Bench, an organisation that coaches Democratic candidates on how to campaign. "They are trying to embarrass us, but let's show them this district is Republican red".

KAUFFMAN: Carolyn Hall Fisher is a lifelong Republican. "Tom Price with at least 60 percent of the vote for years and that Mitt Romney won by 23 points", he said. We can not, can not let it go blue.

Mr. Williams said the infighting could haunt Republicans on Tuesday by pushing Mr. Ossoff over the finish line.

On the other side of the district, at a Republican breakfast in DeKalb, state Sen.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) Liberal extremists will stop at nothing to push their radical agenda. His forthright integrity, refusal to smear his opponents and focus on the issues important to Georgians are the reasons why Jon Ossoff's numbers don't lie.

While those might be noble initiatives, it seems unlikely that the money Ossoff has managed to raise is aimed exclusively at local efforts. Ossoff's campaign reported recently that it had raised 8.3 million through March 29.

Candidates and outside groups have spent more than $14 million on political ads in the district, enough that residents are tuning out. "I thought that the country would wake up at some point".

KAUFFMAN: Molly Martin teaches at a community college in San Francisco. Frustrated by what happened in November, she said Ossoff was the first political candidate she'd ever donated to. But all of this out-of-state support has motivated some Republican voters like Gary Bailey. At a Republican get-out-the-vote rally in Marietta, Republicans tried to unite behind a "Stop Ossoff" movement.

Back in Chicago, however, voters are confident they can keep the momentum going. For NPR News, I'm Johnny Kauffman in Atlanta. But all the money and energy in this race shows that nobody thinks it's a sure thing.