Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff didn't win yet, but he exceeded expectations in a hotly contested primary for a Georgia congressional seat that has been Republican since 1979 and will now compete in a runoff election.
That means Ossoff, a former congressional staff member, will take on Republican Karen Handel in a June runoff election.
The drama hinged on whether the documentary filmmaker would win an outright majority of the vote, which would send him to Congress, or if he would fall short of 50 percent and be forced into a June 20 runoff with one of the 11 Republicans in the race. Handel is a former Georgia secretary of state and has largely avoided talking about Trump, who lagged other Republicans in the district last November. The election is being held to fill the seat previously held by Tom Price, who is now the secretary of health and human services. And perhaps more significantly, Georgia Democrats have a poor record historically in two-party runoff elections (for example, Democrat Jim Martin lost to Republican Saxby Chambliss by almost 15 points in a 2008 Senate runoff).
The Democrats hoped to win this special election and have the momentum carry them into the 2018 midterms. "Glad to be of help!" he wrote late on Tuesday.
(AP Photo/John Bazemore). Supporters of Democratic candidate for Georgia's Sixth Congressional Seat Jon Ossoff hold signs near a poll location Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Marietta, Ga.
Despite what seemed like at least a moral victory for Mr Ossoff, the White House claimed that it was in truth a defeat.
"This district has a long legacy of Republican leadership", she said. He has come under fire because he doesn't live in the district.
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In a major triumph for the Democratic Party, Jon Ossoff finished tonight at the top of a field of eleven Republican and four additional Democratic candidates.
Ossoff said on CNN that Trump was misinformed about his positions and that he was focused on issues affecting the region, not Washington.
The election had been proclaimed widely as a referendum on the Trump administration, especially by Democrats who believed they would win the seat without a run-off.
For Democrats, their next two federal contests look very bleak with special elections coming up in Montana and SC where the GOP is expected to easily prevail.
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.
Republican Karen Handel has kept her distance from Trump.
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