So it came as no surprise when, after Handel edged out Ossoff by 3.8 points, the president and his allies were quick to declare the victory proof of voters' support for Trumpism and the Republican Party. Handel handily won the race with 51.9 percent, and Ossoff trailed with 48.1 percent.
Astoundingly, there was more than $50 million spent in this election by the candidates and special interest groups - $20 million more than the previous congressional record.
Bryant seems to have forgotten that he is paid significant amounts of public money to report the news, not to peddle his opinions.
Democrats must defend their current districts and win 24 GOP-held seats to regain a House majority next November.
Handel's tough race, combined with closer-than-usual GOP House victories in Kansas, Montana and SC, suggests Trump will dominate the coming election cycle, forcing Republicans to make peace with him, for better or worse. Democrats from coast to coast threw everything they had at this race, and Karen would not be defeated. As the New York Times points out, this was a seat "redrawn to heavily favor Republicans after the 2010 elections". "We can't just run against Trump". Maybe because of real antipathy toward Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's nominee. Is that what they'll tell the donors, those folks in California and NY and MA who sent Ossoff their gifts $10, $20, $50 at a time, thinking he was their Scott Brown, the vanguard of a counter-wave to the one that only recently swept them totally out of power? Mr Sanders took an very bad long time to endorse him. Most recently, Tom Price resigned in February to join Trump's administration.
A district that has been sending Republicans to Washington for almost four decades sent another one to our federal city on Tuesday.
The seat in Georgia's 6th Congressional District became vacant after prominent Republican Tom Price went to serve as Trump's health secretary. "And I wish him and Alisha all the best in the new life that they are going to be starting", she said, referring to Ossoff's fiancee, Alisha Kramer.
Mr Ossoff tried his best to rally his supporters, in a humble concession speech late on Tuesday night.
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So it was with Tuesday night that the blame game started immediately after it was clear they had lost both seats, particularly the one in Georgia. "The fight is still alive".
Georgia's sixth district is a traditionally safe Republican seat but Democrats had hoped to capitalise on the president's low approval ratings. Democrats also say Trump's agenda of rolling back Obamacare and revamping the tax code would benefit the wealthy and big businesses while hurting the poor and middle class.
Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, said the Democrats needed to think about their approach for 2018.
"It kind of calms the waters in terms of people looking for predictors or harbingers and what it means for 2018", Pawlenty told CNN.
People, please. Enough of the overwrought hand-wringing.
Rep. Joe Crowley of NY, the House Democratic Caucus chairman, said in a statement that Georgia represented "a tough loss". "Time to stop rehashing 2016 and talk about the future".
"The Democrats have to be hyper-focused on an economic message that tells people that the Republican Party is all about economic growth for millionaires and billionaires, and the Democratic Party is about economic growth for everybody", Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of CT told MSNBC.
That said, Trump continues to be incredibly unpopular and opposition parties run against who is in power. She barely mentioned him ahead of finishing second to Ossoff in an April primary.
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