Trump declares Georgia Democrats are ‘failing’

Republicans are bidding to prevent a major upset in a conservative Georgia congressional district Tuesday wh.

(AP Photo/David Goldman). A voter casts a ballot in a special election in Atlanta, Tuesday, April 18, 2017.

It quoted the Richmond Times-Dispatch as saying, “Democrat defeats GOP’s House majority whip in contest for court clerk in Prince William”.

Republicans have held the seat in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District for the past 40 years, but Democrats came close to nabbing it on Tuesday.

Ossoff is the Democratic candidate hoping to represent Georgia’s sixth congressional district, a position that was vacated when Tom Price left to become President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary.

Republican Karen Handel is a former Georgia secretary of state who has allied herself with President Trump and is viewed as an establishment-friendly Republican.

While Ossoff got support from his party’s chairman, Handel gathered her own big name support, picking up an endorsement from Gov. Nathan Deal.

“We are changing the world and your voices are going to ring out across this state and country”, Ossoff told his supporters.

Democrats were hoping for a surprise win in Georgia, but they came up just short in Tuesday night’s special election in a district held by Republicans for almost four decades.

“Dems failed in Kansas and are now failing in Georgia”. Great job Karen Handel! But Republicans, including Trump, sought to cast the election, not as an evening of just barely escaping humiliation, but as yet another example of Democrats’ continuous losing ways. If she can’t, then Ossoff has a chance of winning in June. Commission chair, was the top Republican vote-getter, emerged from a group of GOP candidates who directed some campaign attack ads at one another. Handel said that she welcomed Deal’s support as a sign of GOP unity. “Anything short of describing that as a loss is sort of inconceivable to me in the sense that’s literally what they said their goal was to do”. “The reaction has somewhat been, you know, that they nearly won”. Should they keep plowing millions into this race?

The Georgia congressional seat is attracting so much attention also because it has been the Republicans’ since the late 1970s – and a candidate as strong as Ossoff is definitely a threat to them.

While PP’s decision to financially back Ossoff is likely due to his progressive politics and rising anti-Trump sentiment that might mobilize their pro-choice base, his biggest opponent’s decidedly anti-PP stance may also have played a part. They said that they – their goal was to get over 50 percent.

I think that’s a flawed argument. “And to do that, strangely enough, you have to govern”. But as the votes cast on Election Day were tallied, his numbers fell and finally settled below the 50% threshold.

“‶This is already a remarkable victory”, Ossoff said, according to the New York Times.

Still, Bruni noted, both election night results have been more of “a very loud maybe: a question mark in a situation where many partisans and prognosticators itched for an exclamation point”. Another special election is coming up in Montana next month.