Democrat Jon Ossoff fell just shy of the 50 percent needed to win and will now face Republican Karen Handel in a runoff.
The nation's premier 2017 political race entered a bruising new stage Wednesday, as Karen Handel sought to rally skeptical Republicans while Democrats supporting Jon Ossoff prepared for a grueling second round of votes to represent a north Atlanta district in Congress.
The victor will succeed Republican Tom Price, who resigned the seat to join Trump's administration as health secretary. But the official said the pressure is on Ossoff, as the official sounded confident the Democrat would lose a run-off.
Democrats hoped to flip the seat in the Republican district that Trump won by less than 2 percentage points in November and gain some momentum for the midterm elections in 2018. Yet falling short also highlights the party's lingering power deficit in Washington and around the country.
"[Hammarley] called the controversy over Planned Parenthood funding 'a burr in the saddle of Komen, but it withstood the issue for years and years.' Hammarley said the issue became newly urgent after Handel was brought on last year". Here in deep blue Massachusetts, Scott Brown won a special election to Ted Kennedy's Senate seat shortly before the 2010 elections in which Democrats received a "shellacking" as President Obama described it. Sixty-three seats switched from Democrat to Republican. She did not embrace President Trump during the campaign, but took a congratulatory call from him and said she would accept a visit to the White House.
"I think Jon Ossoff's best chance to win is on April 18th", said Kevin Stivers, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Campaign, in a recent interview. "But my job ... is to be the representative for the people of the 6th District, and that's what I believe regardless of who is the president". Trump tweeted about the result. One of Handel's closest competitors, technology executive Bob Gray, even donned hip waders for one television spot as he paid homage to the president by, literally, draining a swamp. Ossoff benefited from a fractured Republican field of 11 candidates. He'll vie again for the seat in June against Handel, in a race where neither candidate has a clear advantage. The more obvious conclusion is that his gamble on the district paid off, which makes last night's results a "big" win for Trump, if not necessarily for Republicans who almost let this one slip through their fingers. Trump had lent support to her through a series of tweets and robocalls.
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In fact, Trump gave Ossoff his opening in the first place.
Tuesday, after spending more than $8 million, the Democrats failed to win the special election in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District.
From the moment he launched his long-shot bid with an invitation to "Make Trump Furious", Ossoff tapped a gusher of discontent that saw him endorsed by everyone from Rep. John Lewis (whom Ossoff interned with in high school) and Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams to actors Debra Messing and George Takei. Handel said. "He wasn't even able to vote there".
In response, Ossoff portrayed Trump, a NY businessman who had never held public office, as the Washington insider.
"This is not a story about me".
"There will be some attempted spin tomorrow that Ossoff hitting 46-48% in #GA06 is no big deal", conservative political analyst Jeff Blehar tweeted late Tuesday night. If Ossoff had crossed the 50 percent threshold, then he would have avoided a runoff and already be on his way to Congress. The California Democrat remains an unpopular figure in the district. It will be a test to see if Ossoff's campaign can sustain this volume of donations. Ossoff "a unifying figure" Analysts say Democrats found a "unifying figure" in Ossoff.
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