At his campaign rally in Iowa on Wednesday night, Trump mocked the Democrats’ failure in Georgia.
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In fact, in all four special elections – including a surprisingly close race in SC also on Tuesday – Democrats outperformed Hillary Clinton in 2016, and they really only tried hard in one of them (Georgia).
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., left, walks offstage after speaking at an election night party for Democratic candidate for 6th Congressional District Jon Ossoff in Atlanta, Tuesday, June 20, 2017.
For Democrats, it’s a reminder of the difficulties they’ll face as they try to gain House and Senate majorities in Washington.
“There have been super PACs in Washington who have been putting up tens of millions of dollars of attack ads in air for months now”, Ossoff said.
While the Center for Responsive Politics documented that over .7 million had been spent in the short campaign, viewed by many as a referendum on the Trump administration, gun politics also played a part in the contest.
“On immigration, for instance, public opinion had actually become modestly more liberal in the years leading up to Trump – but the Democrats are now nearly an open-borders party, so even modest skepticism about immigration tends to push voters toward the Republicans”. A Democrat won the fifth election.
CECILIA VEGA: Exactly. And the Democrats spent more than five times as much as Republicans on this race, David.
Ryan told CNN that his constituents are more concerned about economic issues than congressional investigations into allegations of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
“I worry sometimes that we get so obsessed and angered by Donald Trump, which is OK, but you can’t hold on to it because it takes your eye off the ball”, Ryan said. “She has been a great leader, but like every leader, time immemorial, it’s time for people to know when to go”, Rice said. Ossoff weathered a barrage of TV ads tying him to Pelosi, and featuring caricatures from Pelosi’s San Francisco district.
Pelosi also responded to President Donald Trump’s tweet that ousting her “would be very bad for the Republican Party”.
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But his loss could serve as a wakeup call for liberals who think the Trump presidency is so disastrous that they’re on track to win the House next year. But for now they said a different approach would rest on the party message – not Pelosi. Intense Democratic grassroots efforts on the ground in Georgia likely made up some of that ground.
Those seats were up for grabs again Tuesday in special House elections, and Republicans again won.
“We have closed the gap dramatically”, said Rep. Keith Ellison, who lost a bid to become the chair of the Democratic National Committee.
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Democratic operatives had been hyping the Georgia seat as the start of a wave to help the party win back the House in 2018.
