Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
First, he surely didn't want too many of his liberal benefactors in California, Massachusetts and NY to see him playing the moderate budget-and-defense-hawk he's selling to voters in Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
You can be sure Handel's gaffe will be highlighted immediately in Team Ossoff's ads, and will likely come up again in Thursday's second (and at present, final) televised debate.
They have this one last chance to define an election that proves to be a Trump backlash. This is what each candidate had to say about that. Ultimately, roughly a dozen Republican candidates received a combined 51 percent of the vote, while Ossoff and four other Democratic candidates received 49 percent. I think we can raise it indexed to the cost of living because the cost of living varies widely in urban and rural areas in different states across this country. As a result, both parties have dumped historic amounts of money into the race, making it the most expensive House race in American history.
It might play better if Handel couldn't point to concrete examples of what she's done in this regard.
Handel said that raising the minimum wage could hurt small businesses.
During the debate, Handel was repeating the phrasing Ossoff had just used to explain his limited support for mandate wage increases that he said would yield a "livable wage", and her position follows standard Republican orthodoxy on Capitol Hill. At last week's state GOP convention, she mocked Ossoff with her take on the Charlie Daniels song "The Devil Went Down To Georgia".
"If the Republican base turns out, she will win", he concluded. More jobs. Economy good. Words that literally mean nothing to anyone because when she's saying lower taxes she's talking about lower taxes for the top 1% who really aren't hanging out in Georgia's sixth district.
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UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: If Karen Handel.
The Georgia district is seen as Democrats' best opportunity to flip a district that has previously elected solidly Republican representatives such as former Speaker Newt Gingrich. "And while I was born in Washington, D.C., I didn't get to pick where I was born". It was $5.15 an hour.
"I've been knowing this young man for a long, long time", Lewis said.
According to MIT's Living Wage Calculator, Georgia's minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, however the federal minimum wage of $7.25 applies in most cases.
Still, the affair is "not fatal" to Handel, he said, because her victory depends on Republican turnout, and that particular comment is unlikely to keep Republican voters from coming out to the polls. But you still have plenty of people who are working for that wage.
Ms. Handel, meanwhile, tied Mr. Ossoff to Mrs. Pelosi over and over again, and even actress Jane Fonda on one occasion, as she pushed to make the case that the 30-year-old is not the moderate Democrat he portrays himself to be on the campaign trail.
Abramowitz of Emory University suggested that it is unlikely that Ossoff will emphasize the minimum wage for that very reason.
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