Handel noted in her victory speech "the obligation of being the first Republican woman elected to Congress from the great state of Georgia", as the crowd shouted, "Karen!"
"It's time for change, and personally I think it's time for a new generation of leadership in the party", Moulton told reporters on Capitol Hill today, stopping short of explicitly calling for Pelosi's ouster.
And as for the Democrats, they, clearly, are doing something wrong.
Last night, however, Handel beat Ossoff by 3.8 percent.
The thank you to Trump was Handel's most public show of support of the man who wasn't embraced by many voters in the well-educated suburban Atlanta district in November and who she handled delicately throughout a primary and runoff election to fill the congressional seat vacated by Tom Price to take a spot in Trump's cabinet.
The district leans heavily Republican but Democrats are hoping to muster anti-Trump sentiments like they have in a special congressional election in Georgia that's also taking place Tuesday.
The election was the most expensive in congressional history, with at least $57 million spent by the campaigns and outside groups, almost twice the previous record set in Florida in 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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Indeed the best news Democrats got Tuesday night was that a different special House race, in SC, ended up closer than the Georgia contest even though it had drawn little national attention. They promised a win in Montana, but Greg Gianforte beat his Democratic opponent for Montana's at-large House seat by nearly six points, despite being charged with assaulting a reporter on the eve of the election.
Porter and other Democrats ballyhooed their U.S. Senate and gubernatorial nominees in 2014, recruiting a pair of famous Georgia political names and helping them raise millions of dollars to finance credible campaigns.
But for Republicans from the president on down, it was time to celebrate.
But in the end, if this was the referendum on Donald Trump that Democrats claimed it to be all along, the result affirms that the voters are hardly ready to reverse the judgment they rendered last November 8. Republican Ralph Norman, a former state representative, is facing off against Democrat Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs banker whose ad campaign has alluded to the fictional Frank Underwood, who represented the district in House of Cards.
"Unfortunately a loss for us, but not good news for them", Pelosi told the rank-and-file in a closed door meeting Wednesday morning, according to Democrats present. Democrats need to pick up 24 House seats to retake the majority.
Her victory will be cast as a win for Trump, who campaigned for Handel and hurled a string of antagonizing tweets at Ossoff. Handel bested Ossoff in the Cobb County section, a GOP stronghold, which contained just over 30% of the voters, by the same 58-42% margin. Parnell has vowed to resist President Trump's agenda.
So this is not the type of district where Democrats tend to be competitive.
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