Republicans are bidding to prevent a major upset in a conservative Georgia congressional district Tuesday where Democrats stoked by opposition to President Donald Trump have rallied behind a candidate who has raised a shocking amount of money for a special election.
Trump's tweet:"Despite major outside money, FAKE media support and eleven Republican candidates, BIG "R" win with runoff in Georgia".
After taking 48.1 percent in Tuesday night's special election for Georgia's 6th Congressional District, Jon Ossoff will face Republican Karen Handel in the June 20 run-off election.
Democrat Jon Ossoff drew 48.1 percent of the vote in Tuesday's special election, just shy of the 50 percent needed to win the most closely watched us congressional race since Trump took office in January.
Contrast that with Tuesday's results: Handel and the 10 other Republicans in the race garnered 51 percent of the vote; Ossoff and the four other Democrats got 49 percent. As Frank Bruni of The New York Times Ossoff's strong performance (he came just shy of the 50 percent mark) indicates that Democrats are energized to punish Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections and Trump in general.
Voters went to the polls Tuesday in a special election in the USA state of Georgia in which a young political novice is carrying the hopes of Democrats seeking to jumpstart a resistance movement against President Donald Trump.
Georgia's race came on the heels of a special election in Kansas where a Democrat also fell short in a district long held by Republicans.
As two candidates advance to a head-to-head vote Democrats still hope that Ossoff can capitalize on Trump's lackluster popularity and make the race a test of the president's first 100 days.
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Trump took to his favorite messaging service Tuesday to encourage Republicans to vote and to reject Ossoff, one of several tweets leading up to the election. "Partly because I think he will insist on it", said Dr. Kerwin Swint of Kennesaw State University. But now his press secretary insists that Tuesday's special congressional election, in which Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff came in first, "was a big loss" for Democrats.
Ossoff won all 51 precincts in East Cobb, where Donald Trump prevailed last November, and where Republicans are the only officeholders in federal, state and local government.
Map of Georgia's 6th Congressional District. Ossoff will have a tough battle ahead to beat a Republican one-on-one in the conservative district.
Running in a free-for-all election that featured 12 Republicans vying for GOP voters, Ossoff won 48.5 percent of the vote.
Unfortunately for both Trump and Spicer, the smart analysis doesn't back up his confidence.
Ossoff benefited from a fractured Republican field of 11 candidates, some of whom emphasized their loyalty to Trump while others kept their distance.
Michelle Nunn in the 2014 election was the most recent example.
The race was close enough that President Trump, Vice President Pence, Secretary Price (who had won the district by 23 points last year) all made robocalls. And Democrats capturing the House majority is much more conceivable than being competitive in this race was just a few months ago. "This president got 306 electoral votes", he explained.
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