Texas Takeaways for 2018 After Georgia Special Election

The Democrat’s campaign slogan was “Make Trump Furious”, suggesting angry voters should back the Ossoff campaign if they wanted to send a message to the White House.

Pelosi said that would be fine with her.

Protestations aside, Handel often embraced the national tenor of the race, joining a GOP chorus that lambasted Ossoff as a “dangerous liberal” who was “hand-picked” by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California.

“This is not anything personal between me and Nancy Pelosi“.

“The brand is just bad”, Ryan said.

“I think in this instance it had a motivating effect for our voters on the turnout front”, Rogers said Wednesday.

“My decision of how long to stay is not up to them”, she concluded.

It was laughable to watch the Party of Losers come up with reasons for why they never had a chance in Georgia, or say that the margin of victory was an encouraging sign of future Republican weakness.

The veteran San Francisco congresswoman held up her fundraising numbers and track record maneuvering major legislation through the House and declared she was confident she had the support from her colleagues to continue in her post.

Democrats celebrated the fact that they had turned a conservative stronghold into a competitive district. But it’s clear frustration is growing with the longtime Democratic leader following the extensive losses Democrats have suffered over the past half-decade.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are truly Trump’s best friends, insuring Republican victories in important races in 2018 and setting the stage for Trump again n 2020.

Pelosi said that she feels “very confident” in the support she has from her caucus and argued that “effective” leaders become “targets”.

“There comes a time when every leader has to say, ‘For the good of the order and the betterment of the party, it’s time for me to step aside.’ And I wish that that would happen right now”, said Rice. Nor will the party that turned a centrist technocrat into a sharia-socialist have trouble demonizing Pelosi’s successor. “Time to move forward and win again”, tweeted Joe Cunningham, a Democrat who is running against Rep. Mark Sanford in SC.

Democrat Jon Ossoff’s campaign for the House of Representatives in the Georgia special election seemed like a glimmer of light in an otherwise dark and destructive path of current American politics.

Republicans know this, and candidates such as Karen Handel have been quite successful at winning races by constantly running ads linking their opponents to Pelosi.

And progressive activists’ willingness to pour millions of dollars’ worth of small-dollar online contributions into Ossoff’s campaign – donations fueled nearly entirely by a desire to deal Trump a political setback – was what convinced Democrats to take the race seriously.

But Pelosi mocked the President, saying it was “the first tweet he didn’t actually write” because it sounded like a statement many other Republicans have made recently. Handel kept the president at arm’s length, not even mentioning him by name in her victory remarks, and Democrat Jon Ossoff focused more in the closing stretch on a grab bag of issues including health-care and climate change.

But it just doesn’t follow that red America’s cultural resentments would lose their political potency the moment Pelosi ceded the throne.