The Associated Press called the race at 10:13 p.m. "We are encouraged that the voters rejected Ossoff's extreme pro-abortion agenda and are sending Karen Handel to Washington to stand up for women and children and get taxpayers out of the abortion business". He said that "this is the beginning of something much bigger than us".
In the four races for red House districts vacated by Trump nominees, the Republican candidate won but the Democrat performed better than the party's candidate did in 2016.
With 99 of 208 precincts fully reporting, Republican Karen Handel was ahead of Democrat Jon Ossoff by 52.58 percent to 47.42 percent, according to Georgia secretary of state incoming results.
Republicans are facing a sobering reminder of their president's poor approval ratings, which could act as a drag on their efforts to hold not just this congressional seat, but also the 435-member House of Representatives next year. "Democrats from coast to coast threw everything they had at this race, and Karen would not be defeated".
The affluent and well-educated Georgia 6th District has elected Newt Gingrich, the former speaker; Johnny Isakson, now Georgia's senior US senator; and most recently Tom Price, who resigned in February to join the administration.
Democratic spending has outpaced that of Republican spending on the race.
"The campaign has built a coalition of Democrats, independents and Republicans who want to send some fresh leadership to Washington, who want to focus on results rather than partisanship, who want to see a greater commitment to accountability", Ossoff told USA Today last week.
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With Democrats potentially striking the first blow against Trump in 2017, the race has drawn substantial national attention - and vast outside contributions.
Handel's party has held the seat since 1979 and the Democratic Party is putting up a huge expensive fight to put a Democrat in the seat.
While Democrats wondered what went wrong, the White House celebrated the victory.
Spending on the race reached at least $57 million, almost twice the previous record, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. Both sides flooded the airwaves with political ads, prompting local stations in the area to add news programming to their lineups just to accommodate the flood of advertisements. Ossoff's residency does comply with the federal requirement that Congressional candidates live in the state in which they are running.
Ossoff's allies, for their part, paid for an advertising campaign deriding Handel, a former chairwoman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, as a profligate spender while in office.
Ossoff campaigned as an ally to the LGBTQ community, whereas Handel, the former Georgia secretary of state, told the mother of an LGBTQ child that she was against her daughter's right to adopt and have a family, due to her faith. In it, she calls Planned Parenthood a "schoolyard thug". "I think in the 6th District we have a chance to make a decision about who's going to lead us whether the president is there or not there, whether his policies are good or bad".
Seven years later, Pelosi remains a polarizing enough figure that she never appears publicly in a highly contested House race, instead focusing all her energy on raising tens of millions of dollars for the DCCC and its candidates.
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