All eyes turning to the 6th Congressional District election

If Ossoff should win, Republicans will be faced with a choice between running from Trump (and alienating the base) or betting their House majority on Trump’s ability to become a “normal” president and accomplish campaign promises for the middle class. “So Ossoff is running first among the Democrats, while Republicans are having a primary among four or five other candidates”, said Williams. You need not look any further than the results in the presidential race in 2016 to see that these are not President Trump’s kind of Republicans.

But despite the symbolism and emotional lift an Ossoff victory would provide, this is a risky strategy.

“Some people are saying you know, ‘I’m a little nervous I don’t know what to do, ‘” Lewis said on MSNBC while discussing why Democrats should stay engaged and organized to challenge the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers.

It’s paid off big time with Democratic donors around the country who are still heartsick about Trump’s victory.

Republicans are terrified of losing the special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. It’s instead focused on get-out-the-vote efforts. Incumbency is important (certainly in U.S. House elections), so every Republican who retires rather than face a tough race opens up an improved chance for Democrats to pick up a seat.

Dominating the outside spending in these races are the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super political action committee linked to House GOP leaders, and the National Republican Congressional Committee, a national party committee. Not a single seat has changed hands in those states this decade.

In Kansas, Republicans were able to keep the seat vacated by Central Intelligence Agency director Mike Pompeo – but the race was much tighter than expected in what many regarded as the first referendum on the Trump administration. Ossoff raised more than $8.3 million and spent almost $6.2 million by March 29, the closeout date of the most recent FEC reports.

If Democrats want to reverse this, the place to start is not throwing millions at Georgia’s sixth.

Democrats initially held a large early vote lead, but Republicans are now closing in on their advantage.

24 seats is what the Democrats need to take back over control. His opponent, James Thompson, was a relative nobody and dramatically underfunded by comparison – 0,000 was spent on ads by the Republican Party in the state, while the Democratic Party declined to spend even just $20,000 on campaign mailers.

Television ads posed the choice as between Reagan and Democratic House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill, an outspoken liberal hardly popular in conservative Mississippi.

Even if they thread this needle, however, the party’s deep disadvantage in state houses is unlikely to move.

The Democrats won another 21 seats.

The Republicans lost 8 seats. “That same energy is needed in other state & federal races”. Some of the other Democrats in the race complained they weren’t given a fair shot by the party during a recent debate. A new poll today from RRH Elections/Decision Desk HQ has Ossoff at 39 percent, with just 6 percent undecided; his top showing in any poll is 43 percent. Becerra carried the district with 77 percent, and Clinton with 83 percent.

The 6th District has usually been a GOP-leaning area, represented by Republicans like Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich. Though generally Republican presidentially, Montana is a politically independent state that now has a Democratic governor and one Democratic senator.

Daley is the author of “Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count”, a senior fellow at FairVote, and the former editor in chief of Salon.