A Democrat came close to outright victory in Tuesday's closely watched U.S. congressional primary in Georgia, heading to a run-off in a race that Democrats tout as an early test of resistance to President Donald Trump. Stop Donald Trump, a man who encourages racial and religious discrimination and sexism.
Milano continued tweeting throughout the night, asking her followers to contribute to Ossoff's ongoing campaign and fighting President Donald Trump's assertion that Republicans were the big winners in the race. Handel voted for the charity to stop giving to Planned Parenthood, a decision that was later reversed, and caused her to step down from her position.
The question was whether Ossoff, a 30-year-old owner of an investigative film company, could win more than 50 percent of the vote Tuesday.
Democrat Jon Ossoff ended up as the top vote getter in a crowded field of 18 candidates vying to fill a vacant seat in the House of Representatives. The pair would face each other on the ballot two months later, on June 20.
Georgia's Sixth Congressional District final election results are in, and the Democrats have a bit of good news - Jon Ossoff received 92,390 votes - which is 48.1% of the votes, according to The Associated Press.
Polls close at 7 p.m. 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).
Still, the GOP side was divided between candidates with very different views of President Trump.
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Ossoff was a documentary filmmaker and former congressional aide before he jumped into the race.
Even as he ran a campaign more focused on jobs and shaking up the Washington status quo, Ossoff became a symbol of the anti-Trump movement.
A similar margin in the 2018 mid-term elections would see the Democrats regain a majority in the House of Representatives.
"If we had waited another couple of weeks, it would have been too late", said Corry Bliss, executive director of Congressional Leadership Fund, in an interview in which he shared the super PAC's strategy. "But we've got some real wind at our back at every level". National Republican groups spent millions of dollars painting Ossoff as a neophyte who does not live in the area he aims to represent.
The president tweeted multiple attacks on Ossoff in recent days.
Ossoff, also a former congressional staffer, drew endorsements from the national party and from veteran Georgia Congress members, including the civil rights giant Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., for whom Ossoff once interned. "I wouldn't use the word referendum", White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, adding, "I think (Trump) hopes to have a Republican elected to that seat, and hopefully it will be someone to follow in Tom Price's footsteps and be a leader from that district".
After all, the seat had been in Republican hands for almost four decades.
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