That's what Karen Handel supporters chanted after she crushed Democrat Jon Ossoff in a special election Tuesday in Georgia's 6th congressional district. The special election was held to fill the seat vacated by Tom Price after Trump appointed him as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Handel, the 55-year-old former Georgia secretary of state, beat Democrat Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old former congressional aide and documentary filmmaker.
The result of Tuesday's election likely will embolden Trump and his legislative push to dismantle Obamacare and overhaul taxes.
In 2017, the first year of Donald Trump's presidency, there have been five congressional special elections, and as of last night, Republicans have now won four of them, including a key victory in a hard-fought race in Georgia.
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway also basked in the Republican winning streak, and dealt a cutting jab to those who predicted an Ossoff victory and accompanying voter rebuke of Trump - both of which failed to emerge.
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Let's also not forget that there was another special election in South Carolina's 5th yesterday - a district that's even more Republican than Georgia's 6th - and in that race Republican Ralph Norman prevailed over Democrat Archie Parnell by just three points, 51% to 48%. He campaigned in a right-leaning district, Georgia's sixth, as a self-described "pragmatic moderate".
"Republicans are going to get exhausted of winning if the Democrats don't get an agenda", White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on "Fox & Friends".
"Well, the Special Elections are over and those that want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN are 5 and 0!" It is a test of GOP strength early in President Donald Trump's presidency. Trump tweeted late Tuesday. "All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0", he said. Ossoff avoided attacking Trump in an effort to appeal to voters in the Republican district, focusing his campaign on reducing the deficit, cutting government spending and bringing high-tech jobs to the area.
"Democrats would do much better as a party if they got together with Republicans on Healthcare, Tax Cuts, Security", Trump said on Wednesday morning in a tweet after the election. Not really: a year later, Republicans won 63 U.S. House seats and took control of the chamber.
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