Republican Karen Handel has won a keenly watched congressional election in Georgia and thanked President Donald Trump after avoiding an upset that would have rocked Washington ahead of mid-term elections next year.
"Things are looking great for Karen H!" tweeted Trump at 10:21 p.m., nine minutes after The AP made its projection, based on the Republican leading by a 52.5-47.5 margin with 168 out of 208 precincts reporting.
Those races were held in Georgia and SC on Tuesday, as well as Kansas and Montana.
Also in South Carolina, Democrat Archie Parnell lost to Republican Ralph Norman on Tuesday and could not win the seat that became open when Representative Mick Mulvaney was tapped by Trump to head the Office of Management and Budget.
"She personally told me she was rock solid" with the president, said Webb, 70.
Trump tweeted that Democrats should help Republicans pass the latter's agenda on health care and taxes, saying obstruction hasn't helped them win elections.
"We showed the world that in places where no one thought it was even possible we could fight (that) we could fight", Ossoff told supporters.
Handel also thanked the president in her victory speech, prompting chants of "Trump!" from supporters.
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Handel insisted for months that voters' choice had little to do with Trump.
The candidates and lobby groups of both parties spent approximately $60 million on the special election, making it the most expensive congressional race in USA history. And a legion of more than 12,000 Ossoff volunteers inundated the district with appeals to vote.
The two candidates in Georgia's special election already had nearly that much money just in their war chests weeks before the election ended.
Handel, who left an abusive home as a teen, will be the first Republican woman to represent Georgia in Congress.
Many Republicans, including Donald Trump Jr. and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, congratulated Handel for her victory on social media.
Handel's victory preserves for the GOP a seat the party has controlled for almost 40 years and that once was held by former House speaker Newt Gingrich.
Democrats recently attempted to hedge donor's expectations about winning the race, adding that they never expected to win. As of Monday, outside groups had spent a whopping $18 million backing her and attacking Ossoff. An Ossoff win would have been taken as a referendum on Trump, political navel-lint gazers had said all day, and send a signal "reluctant" Trumpers everywhere were take-able, if Hillary puts a sock in it, next year. Her two biggest outside funders where the Congressional Leadership Fund, a House GOP-linked super PAC, and the National Republican Congressional Committee.
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