Democrats claimed a partial victory over President Donald Trump, as first-time candidate Jon Ossoff secured enough votes Tuesday in Georgia's traditionally Republican 6th Congressional District to advance to a June run-off election. Former Rep. Tom Price vacated the seat earlier this year after being confirmed as secretary of health and human services. He'll face Republican Karen Handel, who finished second with 20 percent of the vote, in a runoff election on June 20.
A young Democrat, Jon Ossoff, in the USA state of Georgia has come very close to winning congressional seat held by Republicans for decades. Republicans have controlled the seat for decades, but Trump only won it by one percentage point in last November's presidential election.
Trump, who took to social media in the campaign's closing days to heckle Ossoff and encourage Republicans, crowed on his personal Twitter account: "Despite major outside money, FAKE media support and eleven Republican candidates, Big "R" win with runoff in Georgia".
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If Donald Trump's recent tweets about the recent congressional races in Kansas and Georgia are any indication, the president seems to believe that Republicans are on a roll. He has also mobilized strong opposition against President Trump.
She credited Trump with helping get out the vote and vowed, "I will prevail". But it will require picking up more than 20 seats and winning over droves of voters like those in the affluent, well-educated Georgia district that spans Atlanta's northern suburbs.
Qualifying began on February 13 and concluded two days later as 18 candidates - 11 Republicans, five Democrats and two Independents - threw their respective hats in the ring.
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Mr Ossoff, who ran on a pledge to "Make Trump Furious", portrayed the NY tycoon as a Washington insider.
In the hours before polls opened, Trump also recorded a last-minute phone appeal to district voters, saying "only you can stop the super-liberal Democrat". But the president called to congratulate her Wednesday morning, and Handel said she hoped he would come to campaign for her.
Ossoff garnered 48.1 percent of the vote, 1.9 percent shy of the 50 percent he needed to win the seat outright and avoid a June runoff election.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) hit Karen Handel in a $450,000 ad campaign deriding her as "just another career politician", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Four of the 11 Republican candidates are fighting for the No. 2 spot, limiting their ability to focus on Ossoff.
"I think this was a big loss for them", he exclaimed.
But Ossoff, a documentary filmmaker and former congressional aide, told energised supporters before all the returns were in that he and Democrats "shattered expectations" with their performance.
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