She also noted last week's shooting of Republican Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and said politics has become too embittered.
In other words, it's much easier to build up that morale if you can say: Okay, we didn't win this race that we really wanted to.
"And we need to be not just pointing at some of the excesses or even outrages of President Trump - some of the statements he made as a candidate, or some of the choices he's making - and instead put forward a positive and constructive agenda".
Joe Scarborough returned to Morning Joe Wednesday to lace into Jon Ossoff, protesting liberals and the Democratic party.
Former Republican Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Handel's win provides the party with "huge relief and somewhat of a political sedative" heading into 2018, when Democrats are eager to try to win back control of the House.
But Trump also seemed to take the victory as a sign that the status quo in Washington, D.C., is a winning strategy for his party ahead of those same midterm elections next November.
"She personally told me she was rock solid" with the president, said Webb, 70.
And Democrats are looking nearly incapable of translating the energy of their core supporters into actual election wins.
Gunman was angry with Trump's policies
Hodgkinson went to Washington several weeks ago to protest against Trump's election, his brother told the New York Times. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) told the Post that he heard two or three shots before he realized what was going on.
As the results rolled in Tuesday, AshLee Strong, spokeswoman to House Speaker Paul Ryan, mused over Twitter, "Remember when they told us we'd be punished in the special elexs for following through on our promise to #RepealAndReplace #obamacare?"
Dan Pfeiffer, a long-time senior aide to former President Barack Obama, tweeted that Democrats need a "progressive populist candidate" focused on the economy and the GOP's health care effort to win tough House races.
"If you get a guy or a woman that's from the district that people have seen in worship services for 30 years; that know their families, they're at the PTA - You know, you get a guy who's a banker at a small community bank that talks, 'Oh come on now, Jim". Ossoff initially campaigned on a promise to "make Trump furious" but more recently backed off that approach. Handel emphasized that pedigree often during her campaign and again during her victory speech.
She hoped Ossoff would crack the so-far impervious Trump base. She rarely mentioned the administration, despite holding a closed-door fundraiser with the president earlier this spring.
Democrats attacked her record, including increasing spending as secretary of state.
#Ossof Race better be a wake up call for Democrats - business as usual isn't working.
"KAREN HANDEL FOR CONGRESS", he wrote.
- GOP leaders on Capitol Hill are relieved that Handel's win will avert a collective freak-out of the rank-and-file.
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