Republicans are bidding to prevent a major upset in a conservative Geor.
Republicans believe a two-candidate scenario will benefit them in a district that has been in Republican hands since 1978, when Atlanta suburbanites elected a young congressman named Newt Gingrich.
(AP Photo/David Goldman). A voter casts a ballot in a special election in Atlanta, Tuesday, April 18, 2017. It drew 11 Republicans, five Democrats and three independents. "This is a case of Democratic Party supporters taking a shot at Donald Trump; they can't because that election is over, so they take a shot at the party instead", the political scientist told The Straits Times over the phone.
She credited Trump with helping get out the vote and vowed, "I will prevail".
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has a message for lawmakers who don't like the Trump administration's aggressive approach to immigration enforcement: change the laws or "shut up.". But for a first high-profile test of polling since the 2016 election, when surveys underestimated Donald Trump's support, Georgia 6 is not consistent with the idea that polling is broken, or that polls are systematically missing Republican support.
In fact, the victor of the nonpartisan primary, Democrat Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old onetime documentary filmmaker and former political staffer, ended up getting roughly 48 percent of the total vote, about the same percentage that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton received back in November.
Handel received just under 20 percent of the vote. Trump had lent support to her through a series of tweets and robocalls.
Democrats put their hope in political upstart Jon Ossoff to deliver a rebuke to President Trump in Tuesday night's Georgia congressional election.
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"Dems failed in Kansas and are now failing in Georgia". Great job Karen Handel! Another special election is coming up in Montana next month. The seat Ossoff nearly won was represented by conservative firebrand Newt Gingrich for decades and more recently by tea party congressman Tom Price, now the health and human services secretary.
In response, Ossoff portrayed Trump, a NY businessman who had never held public office, as the Washington insider. Tom Price to head the Health and Human Services Department.
"He's already at 49 percent of the vote", Perez said. "Bring it on!" he said.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that Ossoff's failure to win the election outright is a "big loss" for Democrats. "We're united behind me, and I absolutely am confident that Republicans are going to answer, and we're going to be ready to be highly competitive in this district".
But Ossoff had help from an extraordinary $8.3 million nationwide fundraising haul and an army of volunteers looking for an opportunity to beat Trump.
"This race is absolutely and entirely a referendum on President Trump", said one Republican consultant granted anonymity to speak candidly about the contest.
"[I'd] rather be Jon Ossoff than [Republican candidate] Karen Handel right now", he told CNN's "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo. Republicans had to spend millions of dollars to keep Ossoff from an outright win in spite of a crowded field that made it hard for anyone to come close to 50%.
Werner reported from Washington.
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