Jon Ossoff: The 30-year-old has never been a candidate for office before this race, but Ossoff is no political neophyte. But President Donald Trump tapped Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Previous special elections in Kansas and Montana were won by Republican candidates.
"Handel and the GOP have focused on approximately 35,000 voters who cast GOP ballots in Georgia's 2016 presidential primary but did not vote on April 18", said Politico's Scott Bland.
Handel planned to hold a campaign rally Saturday with Price and former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, who now serves as Trump's agriculture secretary. The amount of money going into the race is unprecedented, especially in a special election.
Ossoff says he would oppose the House Republican health care bill because it punishes many working-class households that gained coverage under the Affordable Care Act and would "gut" consumer protections for individuals with previous maladies in their medical history.
Meanwhile, in SC, another special election is set for Tuesday between Democrat Archie Parnell and Republican Ralph Norman.
But he's financed that message with a fundraising haul from outside the district, and his donor list contains far more addresses from California, New York and MA than from Georgia.
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According to the Ossoff campaign, their average contribution is less than $50, with two-thirds of donations coming in at amounts less than $200. To the consternation of Bernie Sanders and others in his supporters in the party, Ossoff avoids the more fiery left-wing rhetoric that some Democrats are desperate to hear.
Ossoff's camp also reported that threats have been made against his campaign, saying that they have "intensified" in the lead-up to the election.
For Handel, Ossoff's "values are 3,000 miles away in San Francisco", the hometown of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.
Ossoff has received support and volunteers from all over the country hoping to "Flip the 6 th". They argue that Ossoff's near-win in the first round already bodes well for Democrats running in other suburban districts where Republicans don't start with such a fundamental advantage. A significant portion of this funding has gone specifically toward mobilizing black and young voters. Almost all that money went to attacking the opposing candidate. He reported raising $23.6 million through the end of May, while Republican Karen Handel brought in $4.3 million. The ActBlue donation page for Ossoff states "flipping this seat from red to blue would send shockwaves through Congress - and replacing Trump's anti-Obamacare point man with a Democrat would be an wonderful little cherry on top".
Handel has turned to the president for a fundraising lift but otherwise treaded cautiously when speaking of him, aware that much of her well-educated conservative base does not always identify with his roaring populism. Handel was second, with 19.8 percent as the Republican vote was split between a wealth of candidates.
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