In the aftermath of Georgia’s highly anticipated special congressional election, expect to see many people who said the race would matter a lot downplay it while some who dismissed its importance—such as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, in response to a question about whether it was a referendum on President Trump—suddenly play it up.
Republican Karen Handel won Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District fairly easily (she ran ahead of Trump’s 2016 victory margin) though not overwhelmingly (she significantly underperformed former Rep. Tom Price, a Republican who is now Secretary of Health and Human Services). This leaves the Democrats 0-3 in special elections in Republican-held districts they have tried to contest this year, even in a political climate that is problematic for the GOP.
Georgia was their best shot. They had an attractive candidate in 30-year-old Jon Ossoff who was moderate enough to be a fit for this suburban Atlanta district yet also sufficiently liberal to raise tens of millions from energized anti-Trump donors. (Though he will now be criticized for both being insufficiently liberal and inadequately moderate, for reasons we will review later.)
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