The stop Trump movement in Georgia came close but failed to get the win last night. They spent about 8 million on TV ad's which has riled up people who thought the money could be better spent building up the party. A large chunk of that money (90%) came from out of state. A strange thing Jon Ossoff lives just outside of the district and could not vote for himself. The run off election will be in June. The key will be organization.. it's going to be hard to get people to the polls when the kids are out of school and it's summer vacation time. This has to be demoralizing for the democratic party. Loss in Kansas special election and now a run off in Georgia.


Georgia congressional race: Democrat Ossoff, Republican Handel will go to run-off

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/19/georgia-congressional-race-democrat-ossoff-republican-handel-will-go-to-run-off.html

A special election in Georgia’s Sixth congressional district failed to produce an outright winner Tuesday, forcing a June 20 runoff between upstart Democrat Jon Ossoff and former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel.With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Ossoff had garnered 48 percent of the vote, falling just short of the majority threshold required in the so-called “jungle primary.” 

Handel was the top GOP vote-getter at 20 percent, finishing comfortably ahead of technology executive Bob Gray, who received 11 percent of the vote, and former State Senators Judson Hill and Dan Moody, who received 9 percent of the vote respectively.“We are going to rally around Karen Handel,” Gray tweeted late Tuesday as it became clear he would not make the runoff. “We wish her Godspeed.”The winner of the runoff between Handel and Ossoff will succeed Tom Price, who resigned to become Trump's health and human services secretary.Ossoff, a 30-year-old documentary filmmaker and former congressional aide, had sought to parlay opposition to President Donald Trump into an outright victory that would have emboldened Democrats ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

His run attracted more than $8 million in donations, which largely came from outside the state.Republicans nationally and in Georgia acknowledged before polls opened that Ossoff would top the slate of 11 Republicans, five Democrats and two independents who appeared together on one primary ballot. Earlier Tuesday, the GOP hit Ossoff hard for living outside the district, and sought to portray him as a conservatives' nightmare who would increase taxes and take away guns.

"These liberal Democrats failed to inspire voters with a candidate who couldn’t even vote for himself, received 97 percent of his donations from outside the district, and consistently lied about his own weak resume," the Republican National Committee said in a statement.Ossoff acknowledged Tuesday that he lives just south of the district, in Atlanta, so that his girlfriend is close to her work at Emory University's medical complex