They've captured a couple of state legislative specials, as well as sort of picking up San Antonio mayor (the incumbent in that nonpartisan race was not a Republican but did to some extent run as one, and her victorious challenger more or less ran as a Democrat). Ossoff easily won that round with 48.1 percent to Handel's 19.8 percent, but those totals are misleading.
Ironically, Democrat Jon Ossoff spent much of his campaign complaining about money in politics, stating on an NPR broadcast that "we need campaign finance reform", according to the Washington Examiner.
Co-host Mika Brzezinski agreed with Scarborough, saying the mistake that Democrats make is presuming that just because Trump has low approval ratings, voters will shy away from Republican candidates.
- Karen Handel won a nationally watched congressional election in Georgia to avoid a major upset ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
Indeed the best news Democrats got Tuesday night was that a different special House race, in SC, ended up closer than the Georgia contest even though it had drawn little national attention.
Democrat, Jon Ossoff, was defeated by Republican, Karen Handel in the most expensive U.S. House race in History. "We can't just run against Trump". Maybe because of real antipathy toward Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's nominee.
Ossoff told his supporters: 'The fight goes on'. Trump barely won the affluent, well-educated district in November, trailing the usual GOP benchmark here by double-digits.
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Mahmood said her heart is hurting, but that won't stop her from joining her friends and family at the mosque during Ramadan. He added: "Nothing suggests that this girl or the group was targeted because of who they are or what they believe".
Ossoff's endorsement from venerable Georgia Congressman John Lewis opened the floodgates for progressives to jump in.
Most recently, Tom Price resigned in February to join Mr Trump's administration. The hope was that projecting a moderate image would make it easier for soft Republicans to cross party lines in the special election.
Protestations aside, Handel often embraced the national tenor of the race, joining a GOP chorus that lambasted Ossoff as a "dangerous liberal" who was "hand-picked" by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California. If they lost on any terms in Georgia, no matter how skewed the playing field was toward the Republican party to begin with, it would be cast as a devastating and demoralizing defeat for the Democrats and endorsement of Republican's cruel healthcare bill.
Ossoff conceded to Handel around 10:30 pm Tuesday night. Rep. Joe Crowley of NY, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said that there are 71 districts that will be more favourable for Democrats to contest than the one in Georgia.
But prescriptions for how the Democrats should move forward varied. He had enlisted few prominent Democrats to campaign on his behalf.
In an attempt to exhibit optimism for Democrats in 2018, Rep. Yet she said the defeat in Georgia may not have been as bad as it appeared. "The numbers really were not there for them", she told The Independent. "The problem for the people in Congress is that they have to react now". Most households have been receiving multiple phone calls every day and multiple home visits from canvassers every week, and everyone has been exposed to more advertising than they can ever remember seeing. He added: "Time to stop rehashing 2016 and talk about the future". And hangdog Democrats were left looking for a message.
Dan Pfeiffer, who worked as senior advisor to Barack Obama, said the party needed to both reach out to disenchanted Republicans, and fire up those Democrats who failed to turn out in sufficient numbers for Ms Clinton in November.
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