Abortion giant Planned Parenthood dumped a whopping $730,000 into the congressional race for Georgia's 6th District, an election that ended last night with Republican candidate Karen Handel beating out Democrat Jon Ossoff in what the left had hoped would be a swing victory in a historically red locale.
Democrats should learn from their latest two House race defeats and work with Republicans to pass health care and tax overhaul legislation, a celebratory President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. Republicans have held that seat since Newt Gingrich won it in 1978, although Mr. Trump barely won the district by 1.5 percent in 2016.
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The House Democratic leader is seeking to reassure Democrats dejected after a loss in a Georgia special election where the party invested millions of dollars. "All the Fake News, all the money spent = 0" he wrote on Twitter.
Republican Karen Handel, a former state official, beat Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff by 3.8 points in the wealthy, educated suburbs of Georgia's 6th district.
"The Democratic Party needs new leadership now", Cunningham tweeted.
Residents get ready to cast their votes in Georgia's special election on June 20, 2017.
During a June 6 debate, Handel repeatedly pointed out that Ossoff lives outside of the district in Atlanta (reportedly so that his fiancé can live closer to the university where she attends medical school) and made critical statements about his similarities to former House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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Georgia's outcome followed similar results in Montana, Kansas and SC, where Republicans won special House races by much narrower margins than they managed in November.
But all is not necessarily lost for Democrats.
Ossoff initially campaigned on a promise to "make Trump furious" but more recently refrained from taking on the president as he tried to win over centrist voters.
"We have a unique opportunity to flip control of the House of Representatives in 2018", he said.
Democrats have now lost all four opportunities to win in special elections so far this year, following earlier losses in Republican-held districts in Kansas and Montana.
Spending on the race reached at least $57 million, almost twice the previous record, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group.
But those charts above show something quite astounding: Republican margins of victory in these districts have shrunk to single digits, after being GOP strongholds for decades.
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