"Generally speaking, Republicans vote in bigger numbers than Democrats".
In special congressional elections in Kansas and Montana earlier this year, they put up a pretty good fight - but lost the races in the end. But he said there is no doubt that "this is one occasion when we ought to say he deserves to take a victory lap".
The Georgia race was the most expensive House race in history, with many millions spent on both sides.
Relative success for Democratic candidates in the Kansas and Montana special elections had raised expectations for Democrats in SC.
The Georgia race - which got the bulk of the attention and record-breaking money - is a clear victory for the Republicans.
Democrat Archie Parnell lost by just 3 percentage points on Tuesday, taking in 48 percent of the vote in a heavily red district.
CROWLEY: Typically they don't go and pick folks in districts where they think they're going to lose that seat to a Democrat.
Ossoff performed far better than Democrats have recently. That all changed when President Donald Trump tapped to Price serve as Health and Human Services secretary.
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A similar strategy also failed in South Carolina's Congressional 5th District, leaving questions about the Democratic parties strategy with midterms less than two years away. There, they fared better than most observers had foreseen.
The losses left many Democrats looking for a new way forward to mount an opposition to President Trump.
"I don't know that it makes that much of a difference", Owens said, about the debate.
Are there lessons to be learned? What exactly it is, and whether they can fix it, will be debated in the weeks and months ahead. Winning is winning and losing sucks, but these trends bode well for the Democratic Party in the mid-terms and beyond. These folk didn't enthusiastically mark their ballots for the reality TV star previous year, but instead chose the Republican candidate for some other reason.
The president also praised his administration's succession from the Paris climate accord, job growth, new policy on Cuba, and appointment of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, while criticizing the "fake news" outlets for not giving him credit for his accomplishments. Maybe because of real antipathy toward Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's nominee.
Yet nobody in Georgia politics, Democratic or Republican, would have predicted a Democratic showing this strong back in January.
The comments come as the executive director of Trump's campaign confirmed to CNN that Trump will host his first re-election campaign fundraising event next Wednesday at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. Demos are now 0 for 4 in special elections since 2016.
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