But Ossoff fell shy of the majority required to claim Georgia’s 6th Congressional District outright, opening the door to Handel, who finished a distant second but ahead of a gaggle of Republican contenders. Ossoff did, however, grow up in the district and plans on moving there if he wins the election on Tuesday.
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Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed made an appearance to discuss the special election being held in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District left vacant by now-HHS Secretary Tom Price.
For months now, progressives desperate to transmute their guilt and grief into something constructive have poured time and money into a 30-year-old, Democratic documentary filmmaker’s long-shot bid to win Newt Gingrich’s old House seat. If he had reason to believe that Ossoff was likely to make the 50 percent threshold today, you can be sure he would either have stayed silent on the race or begun to badmouth either the Republican candidates or the GOP establishment (or both!) for mishandling the race somehow.
Mr. Ossoff, is it true that you can not vote for yourself?
A .1 million Star Wars-themed TV ad buy from a GOP Super PAC depicts him playing beer pong and dressing as Han Solo in an attack on his “experience”. He notes that “there hasn’t been any significant poll showing Jon Ossoff equaling or exceeding Hillary Clinton’s 46.8%” in the district.
Bill Nigut from Georgia Public Broadcasting has the latest on the special election. Republicans have held the district, mostly composed of affluent suburbs north of Atlanta, easily since 1979. “You’ll see great intensity riots on college campuses, or marches, or protests, or special elections”. “MoveOn members are fired up-and if Ossoff doesn’t top 50 percent tonight, we’re ready to help him finish this race with a victory in June, and to elect the MoveOn-endorsed Rob Quist in Montana in May, continuing to show Donald Trump and Republicans that their unpopular push to take away health care from millions will cost them at the ballot box”. And right now Jon Ossoff is winning it.
“Ossoff will finally have an opponent to set up a clear and beneficial contrast”.
A Democratic senator says the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s fundraising emails are “bumming” people out.
The momentum has been behind Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is facing down 11 Republicans in a field of 18, although the chance of any candidate – much less a Democrat in a Republican district – avoiding a runoff by clearing 50 percent in the first round seems remote.
Ossoff has used the anti-Trump windfall to blanket the expensive television market with advertising that tries to stoke liberal angst but also woo disaffected Republicans in a district Trump barely won in November.
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Ossoff will still need a strong showing on Tuesday, especially among the district’s younger voters. But it’s also precisely the kind of district that Democrats are targeting in 2018 – an affluent, highly educated, suburban area that just might be revolted enough by their reality-star president to secede from red America. “He’s like a Bernie Sanders-type Democrat – the future”.
