Ms Handel comfortably won the seat vacated by health and human services secretary Tom Price in the sixth congressional district of Georgia, beating Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff.
"That is why I'm able to attract the support that I do, which is essential to our elections, sad to say", Pelosi added, in a reference to her unparalleled fundraising hauls. It is a tactic that has been embraced since Republicans won back the House in 2010, and it worked again this time in high-profile contests in Montana and Kansas.
"When we saw the first numbers start to come in from Fulton County, on the early vote numbers, where we had really flipped that around to actually be in the lead, we knew that we were trending in the right direction", said Handel.
Nevertheless, Karen Handel managed to garner 53 percent of the vote to beat her opponent, the Democrat Jon Ossoff, showing that the polls, much like in the presidential election, were off, and that money and enthusiasm did not translate to votes for the Democrats.
Republican Karen Handel on election day after she is projected the victor for the Georgia 6th District special election on June 20, 2017. At least during her leadership election, despite the public lashing she took by a number of lawmakers she was re-elected 134-63 by a secret ballot.
"It's time for change, and personally I think it's time for a new generation of leadership in the party", U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Salem) told reporters on Capitol Hill yesterday, though he stopped short of explicitly calling for Pelosi's ouster.
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Pelosi said she respected critical opinions, but, "my decision to stay is not up to them".
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"And what they hoped by making it a referendum on Trump was by saying Trump is bad, Trump is terrible, that would be enough to win and they didn't", said Schultz.
Asked if that meant Pelosi should go, Moulton - who backed Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan's challenge to Pelosi's leadership post past year - said: "I think that's a question for the caucus to decide". Her supporters aggressively linked Ossoff to Pelosi and "San Francisco values", even ticking off Muni with an ad featuring a digitally altered cable vehicle. "That would be very bad for the Republican Party - and please let Cryin' Chuck stay!"
Democrats still managed narrower margins than usual in all four districts, and they hope that bodes well for next year's midterms. "At the end of the day with 260,000 people voting, we just ran out of Democrats and independents".
CROWLEY: Typically they don't go and pick folks in districts where they think they're going to lose that seat to a Democrat. She has the "overwhelming support" of her caucus, she said.
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