Ossoff, a political newcomer, nearly won the race outright in a 16-candidate primary in April, which triggered Tuesday's runoff election with Handel.
But it's a different story in Georgia, where political neophyte Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, is running against Republican Karen Handel for the seat vacated by Rep. Tom Price when he became Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Republican Karen Handel, who is hoping to defend the GOP's historic hold on the Sixth Congressional District, brought in some of the party's big names to rally with her over the weekend.
Democrats see the race where $50 million has been spent - the most ever for a House race - as a referendum on Trump's policies and have unleashed an army of volunteers to get voters to the polls for Ossoff.
Mrs. Handel says her supporters will have the chance Tuesday "to rock Nancy Pelosi's world".
In a special election that has spawned a thousand lessons for our politics, the most obvious goes unmentioned: You can make any House seat competitive if you're willing to make the race for it the most expensive in American history.
But as voters in the northern suburbs of Atlanta head to the polls on Tuesday, there will be nonstop news coverage analyzing what could happen and what it all means. Also on Tuesday is a race in SC, which Republicans are expected to win handily, for a replacement for Republican Mick Mulvaney, now Trump's budget director.
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Kohli said: "I congratulated them in the post-match presentation and I would do the same here because they deserved to win". Despite the heavy loss, Kohli had a smile on his face. "Things weren't happening for them and then they win a tournament".
"This is a national tragedy", Ossoff said. It's a historically Republican seat that Donald Trump barely won last November, full of the educated suburban voters who populate key swing districts in Florida, California and across the South.
Naturally, both candidates are campaigning hard to the end.
The seat has been in Republican hands since 1979, when former Speaker Newt Gingrich started a two-decade run.
In one early Tuesday tweet, Trump criticized Ossoff, saying he'll raise taxes, is weak on crime and "doesn't even live in district". As Politico noted, the polls don't necessarily account for a number of factors unusual to the race, including Ossoff's allocating millions of dollars in funding toward turning out new voters - whose numbers are much harder for pollsters to anticipate. National Republicans' House campaign arm added 4.5 million USA dollars, and the USChamber of Commerce chipped in another seven figures.
So far, Democratic candidates have lost in Kansas, Montana and the April 18 Georgia special election. That forced him into a June 20 runoff with Handel, the top Republican vote-getter.
AJC reports that Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel have each strongly condemned the ad and its use of footage from the shooting's aftermath. Handel has tiptoed around Trump, making cautious statements when asked about the president. "And I really do think the congressional baseball shooting is going to decide the election".
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