Jewish Candidate Loses Tight Race to Republican Opponent
BATTING 0.000 Democrats continue their losing streak in special elections. The latest defeat was in Georgia where 30-year-old Democrat Jon Ossoff (above) lost an election to fill the seat vacated by Republican Tim Price
D emocrats are 0-for-5 in special elections since Donald Trump was elected president a losing streak that has party leaders searching for answers.
The Republican’s biggest victory came last week in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District where 30-year-old Democrat Jon Ossoff lost an election to fill the seat vacated by Republican Tim Price whom Trump tabbed to be his secretary of health and human services.
The two parties spent almost $57 million in the Georgia contest with the Democrats spending more than $30 million of that sum making it the most expensive House race in history. But all that money apparently didn’t move voters. Republican Karen Handel beat Ossoff by 3.8 percentage points greater than the 1.5 percent margin that Trump enjoyed over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.
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