For months Democratic leaders told the nation and their own supporters that all the anti-Trump energy witnessed in the rallies and those poor Trump approval ratings would be great news for Democrats at the ballot box. After a bit of crowing about the failure of "fake news" fueled, big spending candidates and a shout-out to Fox News, President Donald Trump offered up this: "Democrats would do much better as a party if they got together with Republicans on Healthcare, Tax Cuts, Security".
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy (D-Conn.), appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe", noted that in President Obama's first year in office, Democrats were undefeated in congressional special elections - even some in Republican-leaning districts - only to lose control of the House the following year. But as an increasingly well-educated and diverse suburban district, it is the kind of territory Democrats need to win if they want to gain the 24 seats necessary to reclaim the House in 2018.
NARAL Pro-Choice America, which spent significant sums in the district to oppose Handel, framed the loss as a "narrow" one demonstrating a shift away from anti-choice politics.
Still, last night's results were devastating for Democrats, as Handel defeated Ossoff by 4 points. "In many ways, Hillary Clinton thought that being not Donald Trump would be good enough". But they need a message beyond bashing Trump.
Ossoff received much more than Handel when it came to individual contributions, although most of it was also from out of state. He ran endless numbers of television ads.
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And it comes immediately after it was announced that Cristiano Ronaldo will testify in his own tax fraud case next month. Perez defended Ronaldo's tax issues, calling them a "misunderstanding". "No offer has been received for him".
"The way the districts are drawn make that even more hard", he said. On the campaign trail he didn't make any real damaging verbal mistakes.
Parnell lost by just 2,836 votes to Republican Ralph Norman, 51.1 percent to 47.9 percent, a closer margin than Ossoff's race. Despite this, Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff ended up losing the election by a wider margin than the Democratic candidate in SC, whose election took place on the same day. The two candidates combined spent $29.6 million in the race that ousted West from the lower chamber of Congress.
When there's a win, everyone takes the credit. It, if you think about it, is one of the only games in town.
"The same, exhausted centrist Democratic playbook that has come up short cycle after cycle will not suffice", DFA chairman Jim Dean said in a statement. At the end of the day, money did not win the election.
"Expect [a] circular firing squad in [the] Democratic Party - with [a] continued lurch to Left as [the] Herbal Tea Party gains momentum with autopsies on race highlighting Democratic candidate's lack of progressive credentials", Krueger said.
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